1000 Most Common Words in English
1000 Most Common Words in English
There’s a list of 1,000 common English words, categorized alphabetically for convenience:
A
a, about, above, across, act, add, after, again, against, age, ago, air, all, allow, almost, along, already, also, always, among, an, and, animal, another, answer, any, appear, area, arm, around, arrive, art, as, ask, at, away
B
baby, back, bad, bag, ball, bank, base, be, bear, beat, beautiful, bed, been, before, begin, behind, believe, below, best, better, between, big, bird, bit, black, blood, blue, board, body, book, both, bottom, box, boy, bring, brother, build, building, burn, business, busy, but, buy, by
C
call, came, can, car, care, carry, case, cat, cause, center, century, certain, chair, change, check, child, choose, church, city, class, clean, clear, climb, close, cold, color, come, common, company, compare, complete, condition, consider, continue, control, cost, could, country, course, cover, create, cross, cry, cup, current, cut
D
dark, data, day, dead, deal, death, decide, deep, degree, develop, die, different, difficult, dinner, direction, discover, discuss, distance, do, doctor, dog, door, down, draw, dream, dress, drive, drop, dry, during
E
each, early, earth, east, easy, eat, education, effect, effort, eight, either, electric, else, end, energy, engine, enjoy, enough, enter, environment, especially, even, evening, event, ever, every, everyone, everything, example, exist, experience, explain, eye
F
face, fact, fail, fall, family, far, fast, father, fear, feel, feeling, few, field, fight, figure, fill, film, final, find, fine, finger, finish, fire, first, fish, five, floor, fly, follow, food, foot, for, force, forget, form, free, friend, from, front, full, fun, future
G
game, garden, gas, general, get, girl, give, glass, go, god, good, government, great, green, ground, group, grow, guess, gun
H
hair, half, hand, hang, happen, happy, hard, have, he, head, health, hear, heart, heat, heavy, help, her, here, high, him, himself, his, history, hit, hold, home, hope, horse, hospital, hot, hour, house, how, however, huge, human, hundred, husband
I
idea, if, imagine, important, improve, in, include, increase, inside, instead, interest, into, involve, is, issue, it, its, itself
J
job, join, jump, just
K
keep, key, kill, kind, king, know, knowledge
L
land, language, large, last, late, laugh, law, lay, lead, learn, leave, left, leg, less, let, letter, life, light, like, line, list, listen, little, live, long, look, lose, love, low
M
machine, main, make, man, many, mark, market, matter, may, me, mean, measure, meet, member, memory, mention, message, method, middle, might, mile, mind, minute, miss, moment, money, month, more, morning, most, mother, move, much, music, must, my, myself
N
name, nation, natural, nature, near, need, never, new, news, next, night, no, none, nor, north, not, note, nothing, notice, now, number
O
object, observe, occur, of, off, offer, office, often, oh, oil, old, on, once, one, only, open, operate, opportunity, or, order, organization, other, our, out, outside, over, own
P
page, pain, paint, paper, parent, part, particular, party, pass, past, pay, peace, people, per, perform, person, phone, pick, picture, piece, place, plan, plant, play, please, point, police, policy, political, poor, popular, position, possible, power, prepare, present, president, pressure, pretty, prevent, price, private, probably, problem, process, produce, product, program, project, protect, prove, provide, public, pull, purpose, push, put
Q
quality, question, quickly, quiet, quite
R
radio, raise, reach, read, ready, real, really, reason, receive, record, red, reduce, reflect, refuse, region, relate, relationship, remain, remember, remove, report, represent, require, rest, result, return, reveal, rich, right, rise, risk, river, road, rock, role, room, rule, run
S
safe, same, save, say, school, science, sea, season, seat, second, section, see, seem, sell, send, sense, sentence, separate, series, serious, serve, service, set, seven, several, sex, shape, share, she, short, should, show, side, sign, simple, since, sing, single, sister, sit, situation, six, size, skill, skin, sleep, small, smile, so, social, society, solve, some, song, soon, sorry, sound, south, space, speak, special, specific, speed, spend, sport, spring, staff, stage, stand, star, start, state, stay, step, still, stock, stop, store, story, street, strong, student, study, style, subject, success, such, suddenly, suggest, summer, sun, support, sure, surface, system
T
table, take, talk, task, tax, teach, team, technology, tell, ten, term, test, than, thank, that, the, their, them, themselves, then, theory, there, these, they, thing, think, third, this, those, though, thought, thousand, three, through, throw, time, to, today, together, tomorrow, too, top, total, tough, toward, town, trade, train, travel, treat, tree, trial, trip, trouble, true, truth, try, turn, two, type
U
under, understand, unit, until, up, upon, use, usually
V
value, various, very, view, visit, voice
W
wait, walk, wall, want, war, watch, water, way, we, wear, week, weight, well, west, what, whatever, when, where, whether, which, while, white, who, whole, why, wide, wife, will, win, wind, window, wish, with, within, without, woman, wonder, word, work, world, worry, would, write, wrong
Y
year, yes, yet, you, young, your, yourself
Z
zero, zone
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