100 Most Common Words

So, what are the 100 most common words in the English language? Code Box software has a nifty little game that lets you see how many you can name in five minutes.

Here's the link. (No cheating, now. Don't being doing a search on Google to see a list of the most common words in English-- not that a reader of nHumanities would do something like that, but we feel obligated to help folks resist the temptation.) In case you are interested, here is the next 100 most commonly used words. Finally, here is one more level.

By the way, this list is considerably different from the 100 Most Common SAT words. Actually, it is completely different.

Interestingly, but not surprisingly, none of the words on the most common list show up on Dictionary.com's 100 Most Often Misspelled Words list.