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The 1200 Most Frequently Used Words in The English Language: 1200 High Frequency Words Page 1 of 7
The 1200 Most Frequently Used Words in The English Language: 1200 High Frequency Words Page 1 of 7
This list is from Rebecca Sitton’s “Spelling Sourcebook,” pages 77-82. It is a “cross-referenced
compilation” of several massive word studies, including the American Heritage Word Frequency
Study (Carroll, Davies, Richman), and several other studies, including the work of Gates, Horn,
Rinsland, Greene and Loomer, Harris and Jacobsen.