| List Size | Coverage | User Level | Use Case | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | 95% general text | B2 (Upper Intermediate) | Travel, basic work emails, movies. | | 60,000 | 98.5% all texts | C2 (Mastery) | University in a foreign country, literary analysis, technical writing. | | 100,000+ | 99% + diminishing returns | Linguist | Obsolete words, dialect research. |
The raw number of times the word appeared in the source corpus (often the COCA – Corpus of Contemporary American English, or the BNC – British National Corpus). For rank 60,000, the raw frequency might be as low as 4 appearances per 1 billion words. word frequency list 60000 englishxlsx exclusive
If you do find an XLSX file, ensure it isn't macro-enabled (XLSM) unless you trust the source. Malicious actors sometimes hide payloads inside large Excel files. | List Size | Coverage | User Level
| rank | word | freq_per_million | cumulative_percentage | |------|-----------|------------------|------------------------| | 1 | the | 56,923 | 5.6% | | 2 | be | 35,791 | 9.1% | | 3 | to | 28,384 | 12.1% | | 4 | of | 27,819 | 14.9% | | 5 | and | 26,483 | 17.6% | | 6 | a | 23,487 | 19.9% | | 7 | in | 18,472 | 21.8% | | 8 | that | 11,983 | 23.0% | | 9 | it | 10,876 | 24.1% | | 10 | for | 9,872 | 25.0% | | The raw number of times the word
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