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Test your knowledge of English with this fun Most Common English Adjectives Quiz. Enter '50', '100', '250', '5h' or '1k' to begin. Challenge yourself and name the most common English adjectives according to COCA!

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Most Common English Adjectives – Choose Number

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Enter ’50’, ‘100’, ‘250’, ‘5h’ or ‘1k’ to begin. Then name the top number you chose most common English adjectives according to the COCA (Contemporary American English) word list. First letter and word length shown.

Enter number of nouns to begin ('50', '100', '250', '5h' or '1k').

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Retracto

4 months ago

I gotta think “kind” should be on the list, but it’d be hard to separate it from the noun form in a text search.

rprager

1 year ago

Very is an adverb, not an adjective.

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darin

1 year ago

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It can be an adjective modifying another adjective (i.e. very big).

anonymous

10 years ago

This quiz is [#994] [#5]!