100 Most Common English Words

100 out of over 250,000+ words: After running some statistical analysis on the British National Corpus of words we created a list of the most commonly used 100 words in the English language. This list is to help you focus on very common words. It would be very beneficial to know all of these words and how to use them.

1.	the	2.	of	3.	a
4.	of	5.	to	6.	in
7.	is	8.	you	9.	that
10.	it	11.	he	12.	was
13.	for	14.	on	15.	are
16.	as	17.	with	18.	his
19.	they	20.	I	21.	at
22.	be	23.	this	24.	have
25.	from	26.	or	27.	one
28.	had	29.	by	30.	word
31.	but	32.	not	33.	what
34.	all	35.	were	36.	we
37.	when	38.	your	39.	can
40.	said	41.	there	42.	use
43.	an	44.	each	45.	which
46.	she	47.	do	48.	how
49.	their	50.	if	51.	will
52.	up	53.	other	54.	about
55.	out	56.	many	57.	then
58.	them	59.	these	60.	so
61.	some	62.	her	63.	would
64.	make	65.	like	66.	him
67.	into	68.	time	69.	has
70.	look	71.	two	72.	more
73	write	74.	go	75.	see
76.	number	77.	no	78.	way
79.	could	80.	people	81.	my
82.	than	83.	first	84.	water
85.	been	86.	call	87.	who
88.	oil	89.	its	90.	Now
91.	find	92.	long	94.	down
94.	day	95.	did	96.	get
97.	get	98.	come	99.	made
100.	part				Back to Top