The very top of the list is dominated by function words (pronouns, prepositions, and articles) and basic verbs. Notable Word Lists and Resources
| Word Range | Cumulative Coverage | Typical Words | |------------|--------------------|----------------| | Top 1,000 | ~75% of any text | the, be, to, of, and, a, in, that, have, I | | Next 2,000 | ~85% | accept, allow, church, decision, forget | | Next 3-5,000| ~90-95% | abandon, awkward, census, drought, zebra | 5000 most common english words list
# Tokenize the text and remove stopwords stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english') tokens = [word.lower() for word in brown.words() if word.isalpha() and word.lower() not in stopwords] The very top of the list is dominated
Many standardized tests align roughly with these frequency bands: I | | Next 2
The first 500–1,000 words are dominated by "function words" (articles, prepositions, pronouns) and high-frequency verbs. The Oxford 5000™ (American English)
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