1,000 Most Frequently Used Words in English
These are the most common words in English, ranked in frequency order. The first 25 make up about a third of all printed material. The first 100 make up about half of all written material, and the first 300 make up about 65 percent of all written material. Is it any wonder that all students must learn to recognize these words instantly and to spell them correctly also?
| the | or | will | number |
| of | one | up | no |
| and | had | other | way |
| a | by | about | could |
| to | word | out | people |
| in | but | many | my |
| is | not | then | than |
| you | what | them | first |
| that | all | these | water |
| it | were | so | been |
| he | we | some | call |
| was | when | her | who |
| for | your | would | oil |
| on | can | make | its |
| are | said | like | now |
| as | there | him | find |
| with | use | into | long |
| his | an | time | down |
| they | each | has | day |
| I | which | look | did |
| at | she | two | get |
| be | do | more | come |
| this | how | write | made |
| have | their | go | may |
| from | if | see | part |
| | | |
| | | |
| over | say | set | try |
| new | great | put | kind |
| sound | where | end | hand |
| take | help | does | picture |
| only | through | another | again |
| little | much | well | change |
| work | before | large | off |
| know | line | must | play |
| place | right | big | spell |
| year | too | even | air |
| live | mean | such | away |
| me | old | because | animal |
| back | any | turn | house |
| give | same | here | point |
| most | tell | why | page |
| very | boy | ask | letter |
| after | follow | went | mother |
| thing | came | men | answer |
| our | want | read | found |
| just | show | need | study |
| name | also | land | still |
| good | around | different | learn |
| sentence | form | home | should |
| man | three | us | America |
| think | small | move | world |
| high | saw | important | miss |
| every | left | until | idea |
| near | don’t | children | enough |
| add | few | side | eat |
| food | while | feet | face |
| between | along | car | watch |
| own | might | mile | far |
| below | close | night | Indian |
| country | something | walk | really |
| plant | seem | white | almost |
| last | next | sea | let |
| school | hard | began | above |
| father | open | grow | girl |
| keep | example | took | sometimes |
| tree | begin | river | mountain |
| never | life | four | cut |
| start | always | carry | young |
| city | those | state | talk |
| earth | both | once | soon |
| eye | paper | book | list |
| light | together | hear | song |
| thought | got | stop | being |
| head | group | without | leave |
| under | often | second | family |
| story | run | later | it’s |
| body | order | listen | farm |
| music | red | wind | pulled |
| color | door | rock | draw |
| stand | sure | space | voice |
| sun | become | covered | seen |
| question | top | fast | cold |
| fish | ship | several | cried |
| area | across | hold | plan |
| mark | today | himself | notice |
| dog | during | toward | south |
| horse | short | five | sing |
| birds | better | step | war |
| problem | best | morning | ground |
| complete | however | passed | fall |
| room | low | vowel | king |
| knew | hours | true | town |
| since | black | hundred | I’ll |
| ever | products | against | unit |
| piece | happened | pattern | figure |
| told | whole | numeral | certain |
| usually | measure | table | field |
| didn’t | remember | north | travel |
| friends | early | slowly | wood |
| easy | waves | money | fire |
| heard | reached | map | upon |
| done | decided | plane | filled |
| English | contain | system | heat |
| road | course | behind | full |
| halt | surface | ran | hot |
| ten | produce | round | check |
| fly | building | boat | object |
| gave | ocean | game | am |
| box | class | force | rule |
| finally | note | brought | among |
| wait | nothing | understand | noun |
| correct | rest | warm | power |
| oh | carefully | common | cannot |
| quickly | scientists | bring | able |
| person | inside | explain | six |
| became | wheels | dry | size |
| shown | stay | though | dark |
| minutes | green | language | ball |
| strong | known | shape | material |
| verb | island | deep | special |
| stars | week | thousands | heavy |
| front | less | yes | fine |
| feel | machine | clear | pair |
| fact | base | equation | circle |
| inches | ago | yet | include |
| street | stood | government | built |
| can’t | picked | legs | beside |
| matter | simple | sat | gone |
| square | cells | main | sky |
| syllables | paint | winter | glass |
| perhaps | mind | wide | million |
| bill | love | written | west |
| felt | cause | length | lay |
| suddenly | rain | reason | weather |
| test | exercise | kept | root |
| direction | eggs | interest | instruments |
| center | train | arms | meet |
| farmers | blue | brother | third |
| ready | wish | race | months |
| anything | drop | present | paragraph |
| divided | developed | beautiful | raised |
| general | window | store | represent |
| energy | difference | job | soft |
| subject | distance | edge | whether |
| Europe | heart | past | clothes |
| moon | sit | sign | flowers |
| region | sum | record | shall |
| return | summer | finished | teacher |
| believe | wall | discovered | held |
| dance | forest | wild | describe |
| members | probably | happy | drive |
| cross | already | hair | rolled |
| speak | instead | age | bear |
| solve | phrase | amount | wonder |
| appear | soil | scale | smiled |
| metal | bed | pounds | angle |
| son | copy | although | fraction |
| either | free | per | Africa |
| ice | hope | broken | killed |
| sleep | spring | moment | melody |
| village | case | tiny | bottom |
| factors | laughed | possible | trip |
| result | nation | gold | hole |
| jumped | quite | milk | poor |
| snow | type | quiet | let’s |
| ride | themselves | natural | fight |
| care | temperature | lot | surprise |
| floor | bright | stone | French |
| hill | lead | act | died |
| pushed | everyone | build | beat |
| baby | method | middle | exactly |
| buy | section | speed | remain |
| century | lake | count | dress |
| outside | consonant | cat | iron |
| everything | within | someone | couldn’t |
| tall | dictionary | sail | fingers |
| row | president | yourself | caught |
| least | brown | control | fell |
| catch | trouble | practice | team |
| climbed | cool | report | God |
| wrote | cloud | straight | captain |
| shouted | lost | rise | direct |
| continued | sent | statement | ring |
| itself | symbols | stick | serve |
| else | wear | party | child |
| plains | bad | seeds | desert |
| gas | save | suppose | increase |
| England | experiment | woman | history |
| burning | engine | coast | cost |
| design | alone | bank | maybe |
| joined | drawing | period | business |
| foot | east | wire | separate |
| law | pay | choose | break |
| ears | single | clean | uncle |
| grass | touch | visit | hunting |
| you’re | information | bit | flow |
| grew | express | whose | lady |
| skin | mouth | received | students |
| valley | yard | garden | human |
| cents | equal | please | art |
| key | decimal | strange | feeling |
| supply | guess | thick | major |
| corner | silent | blood | observe |
| electric | trade | lie | tube |
| insects | rather | spot | necessary |
| crops | compare | bell | weight |
| tone | crowd | fun | meat |
| hit | poem | loud | lifted |
| sand | enjoy | consider | process |
| doctor | elements | suggested | army |
| provide | indicate | thin | hat |
| thus | except | position | property |
| won’t | expect | entered | particular |
| cook | flat | fruit | swim |
| bones | seven | tied | terms |
| tail | interesting | rich | current |
| board | sense | dollars | park |
| modern | string | send | sell |
| compound | blow | sight | shoulder |
| mine | famous | chief | industry |
| wasn’t | value | Japanese | wash |
| fit | wings | stream | block |
| addition | movement | planets | spread |
| belong | pole | rhythm | cattle |
| safe | exciting | eight | wife |
| soldiers | branches | science | sharp |
| company | sister | gun | total |
| radio | oxygen | similar | deal |
| we’ll | plural | death | determine |
| action | various | score | evening |
| capital | agreed | forward | nor |
| factories | opposite | stretched | rope |
| settled | wrong | experience | cotton |
| yellow | chart | rose | apple |
| isn’t | prepared | allow | details |
| southern | pretty | fear | entire |
| truck | solution | workers | corn |
| fair | fresh | Washington | substances |
| printed | shop | Greek | smell |
| wouldn’t | suffix | women | tools |
| ahead | especially | bought | conditions |
| chance | shoes | led | cows |
| born | actually | march | track |
| level | nose | northern | arrived |
| triangle | afraid | create | located |
| molecules | dead | British | sir |
| France | sugar | difficult | seat |
| repeated | adjective | match | division |
| column | fig | win | effect |
| western | office | doesn’t | underline |
| church | huge | steel | view |
Nice study material and very useful for students.
I would like to study this website in english learners and especially intermediate english languages.