Word Parts of speech OEC rank COCA rank Dolch level the Article Pre-primer be Verb primer to Preposition 7, 9 Pre-primer of Preposition Grade 1 and Conjunction 5 Pre-primer Article 6 5 Pre-primer in Preposition 7 6, 128, 3038 Pre-primer that Conjunction et al. 8 12, 27, 903 primer have Verb 9 8 primer Pronoun 10 11 Pre-primer it Pronoun 11 10 Pre-primer for Preposition 12 13, 2339 Pre-primer not Adverb et al. 13 28, 2929 Pre-primer on Preposition 14 17, 155 primer with Preposition 15 16 primer he Pronoun 16 15 primer as Adverb, conjunction, et al. 17 33, 49, 129 Grade 1 you Pronoun 18 14 Pre-primer do Verb, noun 19 18 primer at Preposition 20 22 primer this Determiner, adverb, noun 21 20, 4665 primer but Preposition, adverb, conjunction 22 23, 1715 primer his Possessive pronoun 23 25, 1887 Grade 1 by Preposition 24 30, 1190 Grade 1 from Preposition 25 26 Grade 1 they Pronoun 26 21 primer we Pronoun 27 24 Pre-primer say Verb et al. 28 19 primer her Possessive pronoun 29, 106 42 Grade 1 she Pronoun 30 31 primer or Conjunction 31 32 Grade 2 an Article 32 (a) Grade 1 will Verb, noun 33 48, 1506 primer my Possessive pronoun 34 44 Pre-primer one Noun, adjective, et al. 35 51, 104, 839 Pre-primer all Adjective 36 43, 222 primer would Verb 37 41 Grade 2 there Adverb, pronoun, et al. 38 53, 116 primer their Possessive pronoun 39 36 Grade 2 what Pronoun, adverb, et al. 40 34 primer so Conjunction, adverb, et al. 41 55, 196 primer up Adverb, preposition, et al. 42 50, 456 Pre-primer out Preposition 43 64, 149 primer if Conjunction 44 40 Grade 3 about Preposition, adverb, et al. 45 46, 179 Grade 3 who Pronoun, noun 46 38 primer get Verb 47 39 primer which 48 58 Grade 2 go Verb, noun 49 35 Pre-primer me Pronoun 50 61 Pre-primer when 51 57, 136 Grade 1 make Verb, noun 52 45 can 53 37, 2973 like 54 74, 208, 1123, 1684, 2702 time 55 52 no 56 93, 699, 916, 1111, 4555 just Adjective 57 66, 1823 him Pronoun 58 68 know Verb, noun 59 47 take Verb, noun 60 63 people Noun 61 62 into 62 65 year Noun 63 54 your Possessive pronoun 64 69 good Adjective 65 110, 2280 some 66 60 could Verb 67 71 them 68 59 see Verb 69 67 other 70 75, 715, 2355 than 71 73, 712 then 72 77 now 73 72, 1906 look Verb 74 85, 604 only 75 101, 329 come Verb 76 70 its Possessive pronoun 77 78 over Preposition 78 124, 182 think 79 56 also 80 87 back 81 108, 323, 1877 after Preposition 82 120, 260 use Verb, noun 83 92, 429 two 84 80 how 85 76 our Possessive pronoun 86 79 work Verb, noun 87 117, 199 first 88 86, 2064 well Adverb 89 100, 644 way 90 84, 4090 even 91 107, 484 new Adjective et al. 92 88 want 93 83 because 94 89, 509 any 95 109, 4720 these 96 82 give Verb 97 98 day 98 90 most 99 144, 187 us Pronoun 100 113
what is the most used word in written english
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