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The 100 most common spoken words in the English language

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Those who are planning or have already started learning English often ask the same question: “Is there a trick that will help you quickly master the basics”? We are for perseverance, hard work and attentiveness. However, there is an answer to this question. Life hack number 1 - learn the 100 most common words and phrases in the English language.

The reason we advise focusing on the most common English words is because we rarely use all of the words in our toolkit. Consider how you speak your native language. You will find that in most situations, the conversation will take place if you use only 20% of the words you know. Seriously: how often do you use words like "prolongation", "microchip", "veiled"? On the other hand, words like “yes”, “what”, “how” are the most frequent and necessary guests in your speech flow. This is the easiest language trick that will save you a few months. Instead of focusing on unusual words that you rarely use, just pay attention to the most common words.

Using the 1000 most used words guarantees 88% success in communication

According to research…

  • studying the 1000 most frequently used words in a foreign language will introduce you to 76.0% of the vocabulary of non-fiction literature, 79.6% of the vocabulary of fiction and 87.8% of the vocabulary needed in oral speech.
  • Studying the 2000 most used words will introduce you to 84% of non-fiction vocabulary, 86.1% of fiction vocabulary and 92.7% of colloquial vocabulary.
  • Learning the 3000 most used words will introduce you to 88.2% non-fiction vocabulary, 89.6% fiction vocabulary, and 94.0% spoken communication vocabulary.

100 most used English words

If you decide to take our advice, then we present you with 100 popular English words that you can start learning.

  1. A, an
  2. After
  3. Again
  4. All
  5. Almost
  6. Also
  7. Always
  8. And
  9. Because
  10. Before
  11. Big
  12. But
  13. (I) can
  14. (I) come
  15. Either/or
  16. (I) find
  17. First
  18. For
  19. Friend
  20. From
  21. (I) go
  22. Good
  23. Good-bye
  24. Happy
  25. (I) have
  26. He
  27. Hello
  28. Here
  29. How
  30. I
  31. (I) am
  32. If
  33. In
  34. (I) kwon
  35. Last
  36. (I) like
  37. Litle
  38. (I) love
  39. (I) make
  40. Many
  41. One
  42. More
  43. Most
  44. Much
  45. My
  46. New
  47. No
  48. Not
  49. Now
  50. Of
  51. Often
  52. On
  53. One
  54. Only
  55. Or
  56. Other
  57. Our
  58. Out
  59. Over
  60. People
  61. Place
  62. Please
  63. Same
  64. (I) see
  65. She
  66. So
  67. Some
  68. Sometimes
  69. Still
  70. Such
  71. (I) tell
  72. Thank you
  73. That
  74. The
  75. Their
  76. Them
  77. Then
  78. There is
  79. They
  80. Thing
  81. (I) think
  82. This
  83. Time
  84. To
  85. Under
  86. Up
  87. Us
  88. (I) use
  89. Very
  90. We
  91. What
  92. When
  93. Where
  94. Wich
  95. Who
  96. Why
  97. With
  98. Yes
  99. You
  100. Your

10 phrases in English for beginners

For those who do not want to be limited to individual words, we have prepared a selection of the most commonly used English phrases.

  1. Thanks so much - thank you so much
  2. Excuse me / I am sorry - sorry
  3. What do you think? - What do you think about it?
  4. That sounds great - Sounds great
  5. (Oh) never mind
  6. I don't understand - I don't understand
  7. Could you repeat that please? - Would you please repeat that?
  8. Could you please talk slower? - Would you speak slower, please?
  9. What do you mean? - What do you mean?
  10. Nice to meet you - Nice to meet you