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To start with, word usage frequency is an important issue discussed in terms of

every language lexicology. Frequently used words are distinguished from rare
words, and frequently used word lists are made (among the most frequently
used English words, except pronouns and grammatical words, hot, word, time,
say, write, like, long, make, thing, see are mentioned). Let’s not forget about
active vocabulary and passive vocabulary.
Active vocabulary is the word stock recognized and used by a particular person
or a group of people and passive vocabulary is the word stock recognized by a
particular person, but not actively used.

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Before examining the most frequently used words in English more closely, it’s
important to mention word lists. All word lists were generated from a huge
multi-billion sample of language called a corpus which ensures all topics and
text types are covered and the word list reflects how words are used by real
users. The word lists include the most common and frequently used words, most
frequently used nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions and some additional
word lists.
All wordlists are lemmatized (meaning different forms of the same words are
counted together, i.e. goes, went, gone, going and go are counted together and
listed as go). This is generally more practical. However, sometimes non-
lemmatized word lists listing each word form separately are needed.

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Studies that estimate and rank the most common words in English examine
texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one
that was conducted against/by the Oxford English Corpus (OEC), it is a massive
text corpus that is written in the English language. It is a sample of some 100
million words of present-day spoken and written British English. It is made up
of more than 4,124 different text files, each containing either a complete text, or
a number of short related texts, or a substantial sample of a long text. The OEC
contains approximately 90 per cent written data and 10 per cent spoken data.
Although spoken language, as the primary channel of communication, should
by rights be given more prominence than this, in practice this has not been
possible, since it is a skilled and very time-consuming task to transcribe speech
into the computer readable orthographic text that can be processed to extract
linguistic information. The OEC includes a wide variety of writing samples,
such as literary works, novels, academic journals, newspapers, magazines,
Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, blogs, chat logs, and emails.[2]
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Another English corpus that has been used to study word frequency is the
Brown Corpus, which was compiled by researchers at Brown University in the
1960s. The researchers published their analysis of the Brown Corpus in 1967.
Their findings were similar, but not identical, to the findings of the OEC
analysis.
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According to The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists, the first 25 words in the
OEC make up about one-third of all printed material in English, and the first
100 words make up about half of all written English.[3]
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According to a study cited by Robert McCrum in The Story of English, all of the
first hundred of the most common words in English are of Anglo-Saxon origin,
[4]
except for "people", ultimately from Latin "populus", and "because", in part
from Latin "causa".
Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank
all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear
in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be) comprises all its
conjugations (is, was, am, are, were, etc.), and contractions of those
conjugations.
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Why is it important to learn about the most frequently-used words?
For the teaching of languages, whether as a mother tongue or as a foreign
or second language, information about the frequencies of words is important for
vocabulary grading and selection.
Apart from educational applications, word frequency information can be
used for natural language processing by computer (also known as language
technology). In building modern language-processing software, from speech
recognizers to machine-aided translation packages, it can be important to be
able to determine which word, from a range of competing items, is more likely
to occur. Yet other applications are to linguistic research - for example, in the
study of style and register - and to psychological research, where the frequency
of vocabulary use is valuable evidence for understanding the human processing
of language, whether in speaking, listening, writing or reading.
The curiosity. People may be just curious about why for example
according to in the British National Corpus is man more than twice as common
as woman, while the plural women is more common than men.

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The English language is considered to have the most number of any language
out there, with several hailling the millionth word milestone recently reached.
There are 170000 English words in current use. Yet 90 per cent of everyday
English conversations, English newspapers and magazine articles consist of the
first 2,500 the most frequently-used English words. The remaining 10 per cent
are less used words. Moreover, it is claimed that the first 25 words are used in
33% of everyday writing, the first 100 words appear in 50% of adult and student
writing

The most frequently-used nouns Time, year, people, way, man, day, thing,
child, Mr., government, work, life, woman,
system, case, part;

The most frequently-used verbs Be, have, do, will, say, would, can, get,
make, go, see, know, take, could, think,
come, give, look, may, should, use, find,
want, tell;

The most frequently-used adjectives Other, good, new, old, great, high, small,
different, large, local, social, important,
long, young, national, british, right;

The most frequently-used adverbs So, up, then, out, now, only, just, more,
also, very, well, how, down, back, on,
there, still, even, too, here, where, however,
over;
The most frequently-used pronouns It, I, you, he, they, she, we, who, they, she,
we, who, them, him, me, her, one, us,
something, nothing, himself, anything,
itself, themselves, someone, everything;

The most frequently-used determiners The, a, his, an, their, her, its, my, your, no,
our, every, me;

The most frequently-used determiners and This, that, which, what, all, some, these,
pronouns any, many, those, such, more, own, same,
another, much, each, few;

The most frequently-used prepositions Of, in, to, for, with, on, by, at, from, as,
into, about, like, after, between, through,
over, against, under, out of, without,
within, during, before;

The most frequently-used conjunctions And, that, but, or, as, if, when, than,
because, while, where, although, whether,
before, since, so, though;

The most frequently-used interjections and Yeah, oh, no, yes, mm, ah, mhm, aye, ooh,
discourse particles hello, dear, eh, ha, aha, hey, bye, yep,
goodbye.