Date:  Sat, 15 Mar 1997 17:18:55 +0000
From:  Rose Nash <ROSENASH[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: Word frequency list?

I know of two good sources for this information:
1. The Ladder Dictionary of English. It's a recently revised paperback for
beginning language students, and all the words are given a frequency rating
from 1 to 5.
2.  A General Serice List of English Words by Michael West (Longman, 1953).
Contains the first 2000 most frequently used words as of that date. Should
still be useful.

There is also a statistical study of frequencies in written English done in
the 70's at Brown University, I think. If memory serves, it was called
Computational Analysis of Contemporary English by Stavnicky.
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>I'm looking for the most commonly used words in the English language (just
>a list).
>Do you have any ideas, or know if somebody has already compiled one?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chris Metaxas
>cmetaxas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]3star.com

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