The most common word in English is the. It occurs so frequently that it alone accounts for almost 4% of all words that appear in speech and an amazing 6.4% of words that appear in writing. This means that by learning just this one word, a student of English will already be able to understand 4% of the English words they are ever likely to hear in conversation and 6.4% of the words they read. Better still, a student only needs to learn a very small number of words to increase this percentage dramatically. The nine most common words account for over 20% of speech, and to get to an amazing 50% comprehension of words in spoken English, a student need only learn the 63 most common words. The trick is to know which words these are.
Read on to see a list ordered by frequency.
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Monday, March 28, 2011
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