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List of the Most Common English Words

According to an article entitled The words in the mental cupboard published by the BBC, "An ordinary person, one who has not been to university say, would know about 35,000 quite easily."

The Unix dictionary contains far too many ridiculous words that even Google has trouble explaining, such as zuurveldt, cholecystenterorrhaphy and nonly:

$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
235886

Even enable1.txt, the more verbose version of the Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary (ospd.txt) (which is limited to words of 8 letters or less) used by Words with Friends, contains more words than any English speaking adult would reasonably be familiar with:

$ cat enable1.txt | wc -l
172819

popular.txt

popular.txt represents the common subset of words found in both enable1.txt and Wiktionary's word frequency lists, which are in turn compiled by statistically analyzing a sample of 29 million words used in English TV and movie scripts.

$ cat popular.txt | wc -l
25322

These are 25,322 words that everyone should be familiar with.

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Words Are Missing in the OSPD

It seems this is not the complete dictionary. For example, upon first glance, I found that absconded and accolades are not present, despite abscond and accolade being included.

Not sure why they are not included here. Based on this, there are likely more words that have been mysteriously omitted from this list.

Word "eugenia" ?

These are 25,322 words that everyone should be familiar with.

I dare open a can of worms by inquiring about the popularity of the words in popular.txt, but...

eugenia

Eugenia is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae.

This seems to be a common issue with most word lists, is they tend to incorporate a lot of graduate level science and medicine lingo. It's hard to know where to draw the line.

License is missing

Hi Dolph,
thank you for this great contribution.
Unfortunately there is no license for your word lists.
Can you please tell me if I can use the word lists for a commercial project?
Thank you!

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