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Tenth 100 Most Commonly Used English Words

(These most commonly used words are ranked by frequency. The first 25 make up about one-third of all printed material in English. The first 100 make up about one-half of all written material, and the first 300 make up about sixty-five percent of all written material in English.)

The Tenth Hundred
  1. company
  2. radio
  3. we'll
  4. action
  5. capital
  6. factories
  7. settled
  8. yellow
  9. isn't
  10. southern
  11. truck
  12. train
  13. printed
  14. wouldn't
  15. ahead
  16. chance
  17. born
  18. level
  19. triangle
  20. molecules
  1. France
  2. repeated
  3. column
  4. western
  5. church
  6. sister
  7. oxygen
  8. plural
  9. various
  10. agreed
  11. opposite
  12. wrong
  13. chart
  14. prepared
  15. pretty
  16. solution
  17. fresh
  18. shop
  19. suffix
  20. especially
  1. shoes
  2. actually
  3. nose
  4. afraid
  5. dead
  6. sugar
  7. adjective
  8. fig
  9. office
  10. huge
  11. gun
  12. similar
  13. death
  14. score
  15. forward
  16. stretched
  17. experiece
  18. rose
  19. allow
  20. fear
  1. workers
  2. Washington
  3. Greek
  4. women
  5. brought
  6. led
  7. march
  8. northern
  9. create
  10. British
  11. difficult
  12. match
  13. win
  14. doesn't
  15. steel
  16. total
  17. deal
  18. determine
  19. evening
  20. nor
  1. rope
  2. cotton
  3. apple
  4. details
  5. entire
  6. corn
  7. substances
  8. smell
  9. tools
  10. conditions
  11. cows
  12. track
  13. arrived
  14. located
  15. sir
  16. seat
  17. division
  18. effect
  19. underline
  20. view

Taken From: The Reading Teachers Book of Lists, Third Edition; by Edward Bernard Fry, Ph.D, Jacqueline E. Kress, Ed.D & Dona Lee Fountoukidis, Ed.D.