Can you name the most commonly used words in the English language for each letter?

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Note: Q, R, V, X, and Z have no answers in the top 100 most common words. Closely-related words, such as run/runs/ran/running/runner, are treated as being the same word.
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Letter	Word	#
A		10
B		5
C		3
D		2
E		1
F		3
G		4
H		6
I		6
J		1
K		1

Letter	Word	#
L		2
M		4
N		4
O		9
P		1
S		5
T		15
U		3
W		12
Y		3
Z	3
Q	3
R	3
V	3
X	3

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Commonest Words A-Z Quiz

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	thedropsoffire:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 04:15 GMT		20 points
	Is it cheating to use the words in the title?

	jawa88:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 04:17 GMT		12 points
	so much less stressful than commonest words =)

	acidammo:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 04:22 GMT		34 points
	Goddamn people

	rdhaley:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 04:49 GMT		19 points
	I guessed all kinds of 'e' words. Eat, ever, every, end, etc. Even never crossed my mind. I feel so dumb right now.

	tvfan3:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 04:55 GMT		7 points
	glad to know i'm not the only one who had trouble with p and k

	TerraTheTerror:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 05:06 GMT		6 points
	Great quiz! I also had trouble guessing 'e.'

	Bobman1:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 05:07 GMT		2 points
	I also missed the two least-guessed, but they're plenty logical. I should have known, people..... If this was 2009/2010, I bet Favre would have been one of the F words.

	evilcheeba:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 05:22 GMT		4 points
	'e' was the only one I missed as well. I also had issues with 'l'. Kind of got lucky with 'k' and 'p' as those happened to be the first words that popped into my head.

	pfrijiritr:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 05:23 GMT		26 points
	I like how "no" is in the top 100 but "yes" isn't.

	Amelia4242:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 05:25 GMT		0 points
	Got 'just' with ten seconds left! I have no idea how 'people' just popped into my head the way it did....

	slowdown:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 05:58 GMT		7 points
	Is it strange I jumped to kiss, and then to kill, before I guess know?

	freaky69az:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 06:18 GMT		18 points
	I would think "put" is more commonly used than "people" in English. But it's very possible I'm just bitter, because almost ALL of the other 2- and 3-letter words I entered were correct.

	jcewt01:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 06:33 GMT		0 points
	Typing 'was' gave me the answer for the 'B' words.

	Rayavi:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 06:42 GMT		13 points
	That's because "was" is a past tense of "be," and as the note says: "Closely-related words, such as run/runs/ran/running/runner, are treated as being the same word."

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	Pit_trout:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 09:31 GMT		10 points
	@4thandinches: different sources use different counting methods, different text corpuses, etc, so don’t agree on all details. The source for this quiz is the Oxford English Dictionary’s list, at http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/oecfactslanguage/the-oec-facts-about-the-language — and this has even in at 91, and each not in the top hundred.

	MorningBell411:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 11:54 GMT		1 point
	@pfrijiritr: "No" has a lot of different meanings and uses but "yes" doesn't.

	blairio:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 11:58 GMT		-2 points
	Hi, I think "put" is one of the most used words in the English language - moreso than people. Think of the all the phrasal verbs with put (put up, put off, put up with, put down etc.)

	SarahO94:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 12:06 GMT		6 points
	Good Quiz - Its A Shame That People Dont Commonly Use 'Please' :( Thats The Only P That Came To Mind lol :)

	tm83:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 12:14 GMT		3 points
	@blairio, surely you forgot the most important - "put out" ?

	Bethiie95:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 12:32 GMT		-1 points
	I quickly got them all apart from P and K which in my defense are the least guessed! A less time consumming game than the other commonest words game where you have to guess them all individually!

	MCDD:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 13:23 GMT		4 points
	People, People! How can so many of us forget ourselves?

	brneyedgrrl:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 13:25 GMT		9 points
	I've always hated people.

	Tony_A:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 13:46 GMT		2 points
	I'll bet Barbra Streisand would have gotten People since it's in her song 15 times...

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	catcherj:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 14:11 GMT		7 points
	@pangloss: But the source is the Oxford English dictionary, and Oxford is in England.

	rdhaley:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 14:39 GMT		2 points
	@pangloss: The instructions say that the list only contains the top 100 words. Therefore, Q, R, V, X, and Z did not make the list because none of the words in the top 100 begin with those letters.

	barnztormre:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 14:39 GMT		3 points
	Disappointed in myself for not getting L. Anyone who's spoken to a teenager knows that "like" would be on the list because, like, they, like say it, like, all the time.

	cgrapes429:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 14:58 GMT		0 points
	I know all you people.

	rockgolf:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 15:21 GMT		1 point
	No you do not!

	muse:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 15:22 GMT		5 points
	i have no idea how i could not have known the k....

	sourcandyxo:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 15:25 GMT		1 point
	Damn you E!

	trick39berry:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 15:31 GMT		2 points
	I was shocked about E. I hardly ever use the word even...

	StJimmyRocks92:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 15:58 GMT		1 point
	Apparently, .1% of people never try to guess a word starting with "a."

	hellofromUK:	Aug 26th, 2011 at 16:30 GMT		11 points
	Next challenge is to make a sentence that fully answers the quiz. Like this: "you know he can just look for me, and say its not good, but what do people even think of us?"