Frequency List-The Top 5,000 Words in Spoken American English- How to learn English - Fabien Snauwaert

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Frequency List-The Top 5,000 Words in Spoken American English- How to learn English - Fabien Snauwaert

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Source

The list is derived from a corpus of 6,192,659 words, composed of 12 American TV shows. The shows were selected to be balanced and representative of spoken American English.

The top 5,062 lemmas in the corpus amount to a total of 5,796,570 words. Places (toponyms) and character names have been excluded from the list for practical reasons, but are easy to understand and covered a total of 177,952 words. Bottom-line: (5796570 + 177952) / 6192659 = 96% coverage.

In other words, understanding the top 5,000 words given in this list will let you, in practice, understand 96% of the corpus and, by extension, 96% of spoken American English.

(FYI, the 12 shows used for the corpus are: Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Sex And The City, South Park, Community, The Office, Modern Family, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld.)

The Frequency List

1. be | v

Lemma: be

Part of speech: verb

Frequency: 318018

Inflections: be, am, are, been, being, is, was, were

2. I | fw

Lemma: I

Part of speech: function word

Frequency: 267578

Inflections: I

3. you | fw

Lemma: you

Part of speech: function word

Frequency: 248266

Inflections: you

4. the | fw

Lemma: the

Part of speech: function word

Frequency: 176446

Inflections: the

5. a | fw

Lemma: a

Part of speech: function word

Frequency: 152598

Inflections: a, an

5060. worry | n

Lemma: worry

Part of speech: noun

Frequency: 32

Inflections: worry, worries

5061. memorial | n

Lemma: memorial

Part of speech: noun

Frequency: 32

Inflections: memorial, memorials

5062. permit | n

Lemma: permit

Part of speech: noun

Frequency: 32

Inflections: permit, permits