These lemmas, sets of inflected words (e.g. be, is, am, are...) make up 50% of English text.
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 1 |
the
|
| 2 |
be
|
| 3 |
to
|
| 4 |
of
|
| 5 |
and
|
| 6 |
a
|
| 7 |
in
|
| 8 |
that
|
| 9 |
have
|
| 10 |
I
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 11 |
it
|
| 12 |
for
|
| 13 |
not
|
| 14 |
on
|
| 15 |
with
|
| 16 |
he
|
| 17 |
as
|
| 18 |
you
|
| 19 |
do
|
| 20 |
at
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 21 |
this
|
| 22 |
but
|
| 23 |
his
|
| 24 |
by
|
| 25 |
from
|
| 26 |
they
|
| 27 |
we
|
| 28 |
say
|
| 29 |
her
|
| 30 |
she
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 31 |
or
|
| 32 |
an
|
| 33 |
will
|
| 34 |
my
|
| 35 |
one
|
| 36 |
all
|
| 37 |
would
|
| 38 |
there
|
| 39 |
their
|
| 40 |
what
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 41 |
so
|
| 42 |
up
|
| 43 |
out
|
| 44 |
if
|
| 45 |
about
|
| 46 |
who
|
| 47 |
get
|
| 48 |
which
|
| 49 |
go
|
| 50 |
me
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 51 |
when
|
| 52 |
make
|
| 53 |
can
|
| 54 |
like
|
| 55 |
time
|
| 56 |
no
|
| 57 |
just
|
| 58 |
him
|
| 59 |
know
|
| 60 |
take
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 61 |
people
|
| 62 |
into
|
| 63 |
year
|
| 64 |
your
|
| 65 |
good
|
| 66 |
some
|
| 67 |
could
|
| 68 |
them
|
| 69 |
see
|
| 70 |
other
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 71 |
than
|
| 72 |
then
|
| 73 |
now
|
| 74 |
look
|
| 75 |
only
|
| 76 |
come
|
| 77 |
its
|
| 78 |
over
|
| 79 |
think
|
| 80 |
also
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 81 |
back
|
| 82 |
after
|
| 83 |
use
|
| 84 |
two
|
| 85 |
how
|
| 86 |
our
|
| 87 |
work
|
| 88 |
first
|
| 89 |
well
|
| 90 |
way
|
| Rank
|
Word
|
| 91 |
even
|
| 92 |
new
|
| 93 |
want
|
| 94 |
because
|
| 95 |
any
|
| 96 |
these
|
| 97 |
give
|
| 98 |
day
|
| 99 |
most
|
| 100 |
us
|
