Can you name the 10,000 Most Common English Words?
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- Source: Google Books Corpus, Scrabble TWL06 Word List
- Name the 10,000 most common English words before time runs out (SEE NOTES). Use LOWER CASE and NO PUNCTUATION. TIP: go for categories to get EXTRA TIME early on.
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- NOTES: The word frequency is taken from the Google Books corpus (see link) - a very wide ranging English corpus with books from many subjects some up to centuries old. It is NOT a LEMMA word list - meaning different forms of a word are counted SEPARATELY - ie. "be" and "are" are separate, as are "book" and "books." As the corpus has many sequences that aren't actually words I only allowed words that were on the TWL06 Internet Scrabble Club word list (under TWL here: http://www.isc.ro/en/commands/lists.html) or in the Oxford English Dictionary for words over 15 characters (TWL06 list doesn't have words that long). When an answer is guessed it will go in the table and its rank will be shown below left of the table. Clicking on a RANGE and LETTER combination in the list boxes will show words in that range for that letter or category (you can show words starting with a certain letter, words of certain lengths, all words - many ways to view the word list). Showing ALL words show the word's starting letter and length. Showing words by LETTER shows the length and overall rank. Showing words by LENGTH shows the starting letter and overall rank. TIME BONUSES are given for certain categories, such as total words, words of a certain length, top N words, etc. The bottom left table shows the top N words in a row you have answered for each starting letter up to 50...i.e. if there is a "4" under "R" you have the four most common words starting with "R".
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