COCA 5000 – The most frequent words of American English-1990-2012
The Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) is the largest freely-available corpus of English, and the only large and balanced corpus of American English. The corpus contains more than 450 million words… [in 189,431 texts] and is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts. It includes 20 million words each year from 1990-2012
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for
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not
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if
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her
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all
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about
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know
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as
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up
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time
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year
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so
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think
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when
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me
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people
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take
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out
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just
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work
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though
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head
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since
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long
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service
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around
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friend
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important
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father
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away
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until
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power
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hour
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game
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yet
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line
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political
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however
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member
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pay
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name
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read
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