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The Fourth 100 Most Commonly Used English Words

Fourth 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 Fourth Hundred



  1. body
  2. music
  3. color
  4. stand
  5. sun
  6. questions
  7. fish
  8. area
  9. mark
  10. dog
  11. horse
  12. birds
  13. problem
  14. complete
  15. room
  16. knew
  17. since
  18. ever
  19. piece
  20. told

  1. usually
  2. didn't
  3. friends
  4. easy
  5. heard
  6. order
  7. red
  8. door
  9. sure
  10. become
  11. top
  12. ship
  13. across
  14. today
  15. during
  16. short
  17. better
  18. best
  19. however
  20. low

  1. hours
  2. black
  3. products
  4. happened
  5. whole
  6. measure
  7. remember
  8. early
  9. waves
  10. reached
  11. listen
  12. wind
  13. rock
  14. space
  15. covered
  16. fast
  17. several
  18. hold
  19. himself
  20. toward

  1. five
  2. step
  3. morning
  4. passed
  5. vowel
  6. true
  7. hundred
  8. against
  9. pattern
  10. numeral
  11. table
  12. north
  13. slowly
  14. money
  15. map
  16. farm
  17. pulled
  18. draw
  19. voice
  20. seen

  1. cold
  2. cried
  3. plan
  4. notice
  5. south
  6. sing
  7. war
  8. ground
  9. fall
  10. king
  11. town
  12. I'll
  13. unit
  14. figure
  15. certain

  16. field
  17. travel
  18. wood
  19. fire
  20. upon

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