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Top 5,000 Most Common Words

The Top 5,000 most-used English words cover roughly 95% of everyday text — solid intermediate fluency. Grouped by part of speech.

1,446 words total

Top 5,000 Nouns (780)

Top 5,000 Verbs (314)

Top 5,000 Adjectives (283)

Top 5,000 Adverbs (51)

Top 5,000 Prepositions (12)

Top 5,000 Conjunctions (5)

Top 5,000 Phrases (1)

About this list

Frequency rank is based on corpus analysis of contemporary English. The Top 1,000 covers ~75% of all everyday text; Top 3,000 covers ~85%; Top 5,000 covers ~95%. Words are grouped by part of speech below, and the Filter by CEFR level chips above let you narrow the list to your current level.