英语最常用单词

英语最常用单词列表中的内容是基于牛津字典線上版和牛津英语词典对牛津英语语料库中超过10亿的单词所作的分析研究。^[1]这一个资源汇集了各种类的文本，包括“从文学小说、专业期刊到每日的报纸杂志，从英国国会议事录到聊天室、电子邮件以及网络博客”，^[2]这与其他一些语料库只收集确定来源的文本不同。^[3]

需要注意的是下表所列出的项可能代表了不止一个单词，而是词条。例如be就包括了is、was、be和are。^[4]另外，下面列出的最常用的100个单词在牛津英语语料库中占到了所有单词的50%。^[1]

排名 单词 1 the 2 be 3 to 4 of 5 and 6 a 7 in 8 that 9 have 10 I 11 it 12 for 13 not 14 on 15 with 16 he 17 as 18 you 19 do 20 at

排名 单词 21 this 22 but 23 his 24 by 25 from 26 they 27 we 28 say 29 her 30 she 31 or 32 an 33 will 34 my 35 one 36 all 37 would 38 there 39 their 40 what

排名 单词 41 so 42 up 43 out 44 if 45 about 46 who 47 get 48 which 49 go 50 me 51 when 52 make 53 can 54 like 55 time 56 no 57 just 58 him 59 know 60 take

排名 单词 61 people 62 into 63 year 64 your 65 good 66 some 67 could 68 them 69 see 70 other 71 than 72 then 73 now 74 look 75 only 76 come 77 its 78 over 79 think 80 also

排名 单词 81 back 82 after 83 use 84 two 85 how 86 our 87 work 88 first 89 well 90 way 91 even 92 new 93 want 94 because 95 any 96 these 97 give 98 day 99 most 100 us

词类

名词 time person year way day thing man world life hand part child eye woman place work week case point government company number group problem fact

动词 be have do say get make go know take see come think look want give use find tell ask work seem feel try leave call

形容词 good new first last long great little own other old right big high different small large next early young important few public bad same able

介词 to of in for on with at by from up about into over after beneath under above

其他 the and a that I it not he as you this but his they her she or an will my one all would there their

相关条目

• 字母频率
• 频率分析
• 英语词汇量
• 斯瓦迪士核心词列表
• 齐夫定律

参考

1. AskOxford.com: Language Facts （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）. Retrieved June 22, 2006.
2. AskOxford.com: The Oxford English Corpus （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）. Retrieved June 22, 2006.
3. Top 1000 words in UK English （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）.
4. Benjamin Zimmer. June 22, 2006. Time after time after time... （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）. Language Log. Retrieved June 22, 2006.