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List of the 1000 most common words in English

These internal links display 850 common words.

• Basic_English_Alphabetical_Wordlist
• Basic_English_International_Wordlist

http://www.johnsesl.com/templates/vocab/1000words.php splits the 1000 most common words in different types such as verbs and nouns.

More Web pages that might help:

• The 500 Most Commonly Used Words in English (in order of frequency, "based on the combined results of British English, American English and Australian English surveys of contemporary sources in English") http://www.world-english.org/english500.htm

• 1000 Most Common Words in English http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/bl1000_list1.htm?PM=ss14_esl

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