B a s i m a
09-07-2008, 07:28 PM
The commonest English words
The only way to measure this is to analyse a large collection (or 'corpus') of texts, but lists based on different collections (or 'corpora') tend to disagree about even the top ten words in English.
A rough top thirty, based on the Oxford English Corpus, might look something like this
:::
the
is
of
and
a
in
that
have
I
it
for
be
not
with
he
as
do
at
this
his
by
from
her
say
...
The only way to measure this is to analyse a large collection (or 'corpus') of texts, but lists based on different collections (or 'corpora') tend to disagree about even the top ten words in English.
A rough top thirty, based on the Oxford English Corpus, might look something like this
:::
the
is
of
and
a
in
that
have
I
it
for
be
not
with
he
as
do
at
this
his
by
from
her
say
...