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Three Most Common English Words A-Z

Guess the three most common words in the English Language starting with each letter.
Source: Project Gutenberg, not including proper nouns, only the top 10,000 words
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Letter
1st
2nd
3rd
A
And
As
At
B
Be
By
But
C
Could
Can
Came
D
Do
Did
Down
E
Even
Every
Eyes
F
For
From
First
G
Great
Good
Go
H
His
He
Had
I
In
I
It
J
Just
Joy
Justice
K
Know
King
Knew
L
Like
Little
Life
M
My
Me
More
N
Not
No
Now
O
Of
On
Or
P
People
Place
Part
Q
Quite
Question
Quiet
R
Right
Room
Rather
S
She
So
Said
T
The
To
That
U
Up
Upon
Us
V
Very
Voice
View
W
Was
With
Which
X
Xi
 
 
Y
You
Your
Young
Z
Zeal
Zealous
Zone
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11 Comments
cathlete
+4
Level 78
Jan 24, 2024
Another good Stewart original!
Neodymium
+8
Level 63
Jan 24, 2024
Nice! Surprised a isnt on there, maybe some caveat
EconomicSnake
+4
Level 73
Aug 4, 2024
Fun quiz, but I think definitely needs more caveats/explanations about the source (the fact that the list comes from literature, etc.) Also maybe I'm just reading it wrong, but doesn't the source say the top three words (regardless of letter) are "a", "about", and "after"?
Stewart
+2
Level 68
Aug 5, 2024
No, it's saying they're just the top 100, then ordered alphabetically.

a is 85th

about is 71st

after is 96th

The most common word is "the", accounting for over 5% of all words!

Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Aug 12, 2024
Great quiz idea, all the answers seem so obvious afterwards. Wouldn't the answer for X be used as a proper noun in most of its instances?
HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Aug 21, 2024
I liked this quiz, but I don't think anyone would say Zealous, Xi and Upon are obvious lol
RobNobody
+1
Level 80
Feb 23, 2026
Probably it's referring to the Greek letter.
D31415
+2
Level 83
Aug 12, 2024
Agree some more guidance would be appreciated. E.g. I wasn't sure if verbs were only included as infinitives or conjugated, and (if conjugated) I suspect verbal Vs literature have different mix of tenses.
RobNobody
+2
Level 80
Feb 23, 2026
I'm very suspicious of a source that says "an" is used twice as much as "a," and both combined are used less than "which." Sources like the Oxford English Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English both put "a" firmly in the top ten most-used words; there's no way it should be all the way down at 85.
Muncie
+1
Level 75
Feb 25, 2026
Soooo hard! Let's see what we can do to push the use of zero and zoo.
kirbykart
+1
Level 58
Mar 4, 2026
It seems extremely odd and unlikely to me that "zeal" is the most commonly used English word starting with Z.
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