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100 Most Common English Words

Guess the most common words in the English Language, according to Oxford Online.
For the purposes of this quiz, conjugations count as the same word
For example, swam, swum and swimming would all count as "swim"
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Last updated: September 8, 2022
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First submittedFebruary 16, 2013
Times taken1,084,651
Average score40.0%
Rating4.85
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Be
To
Of
And
A
In
That
Have
I
It
For
Not
Word
On
With
He
As
You
Do
At
This
But
His
By
From
They
Word
We
Say
Her
She
Or
An
Will
My
One
All
Would
There
Their
Word
What
So
Up
Out
If
About
Who
Get
Which
Go
Me
When
Make
Word
Can
Like
Time
No
Just
Him
Know
Take
People
Into
Year
Your
Word
Good
Some
Could
Them
See
Other
Than
Then
Now
Look
Only
Come
Word
Its
Over
Think
Also
Back
After
Use
Two
How
Our
Work
First
Word
Well
Way
Even
New
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Because
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101 Recent Comments
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Level 39
Jul 21, 2019
Nice quiz. :D I only got one person taking one of my quizzes yesterday :P
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Level 73
Jun 25, 2022
I just had a look, first ones I saw were on Hamilton lyrics and AJR lyrics (who they?). Could that be why? lol
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Level 23
Jul 29, 2019
73 word yaaay
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Level 47
Jul 30, 2019
The comments really helped. I looked for pronouns and possessive pronouns like I, me, my and she, her and you, your
+24
Level 63
Sep 17, 2019
This quiz should be renamed to: "In six minutes you will feel really dumb."
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Level 45
May 18, 2024
EXACTLY
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Level 70
Oct 30, 2019
NO YES?
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Level 72
Dec 2, 2019
Maybe..
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Level 22
Nov 3, 2023
yes no...
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Level 36
Jan 13, 2020
53 could get more if i cheat but that's just not me
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Level 44
Oct 8, 2024
0 could get more if I cheat but that's just not me
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Level 81
Feb 12, 2020
So I need to improve my score on this by 10 to get the word badge.
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Level 72
Feb 14, 2020
That is what brought me here aswell. And also need to get 10 more. But dont like to take it two times in a row. I would make it if I do it again right now. But for me personally that feels like cheating (not saying it is when others do it) I rather wait a couple of weeks before trying again. Though this is one of those quizzes where each time, you might miss a different 5 answers, so getting them all but never at the same time to get a perfect.
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Level 72
Mar 4, 2020
Got it, 4th time :) I think I need one other thing still for the badge
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Level 81
Feb 19, 2020
ack! 72 on this attempt... missed by 3.
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Level 81
Aug 11, 2020
same exact score this time. Only off by 3. :P
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Level 73
Jun 25, 2022
Same three or a different three?
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Level 43
Feb 20, 2020
As soon as the timer runs out, we all smack our heads saying, "How did I not think of that?"
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Level 18
Feb 21, 2020
I forgot 'and' *head hits wall*
+4
Level 87
Feb 22, 2020
I know they have no infinitive, but can/could and will/would are forms of the same verbs, aren't they?
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Level 81
Feb 22, 2020
Depends on how they are being used.
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Level 87
Feb 23, 2020
I guess the homonyms are separated.
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Level 36
Aug 24, 2024
.
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Level 87
Feb 23, 2020
Just a remark, I don't know if it's meant to work like that, but I just earned the words badge by taking the quiz untimed...
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Level 72
Mar 4, 2020
Personally I don't think untimed should earn badges, sort of takes away the purpose of badges.
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Level 32
Feb 24, 2020
My missed words included: Just Look Its Over. Think Back After Our First Day. Us.
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Level 72
Mar 4, 2020
Because people... those are the longest words, because... people.

Got the 75/100 I was after, there were 8 words I never tried in any of my attempts: with, make, know, just, into, well, new, use

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Level 62
Apr 9, 2020
why on earth is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious not on the list ?!?!?
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Level 76
May 10, 2020
I try this quiz every few months in an attempt to get the word badge, but I can never get past the 60s.
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Level 39
Jun 10, 2020
Oh gosh, I literally only got 45. I feel utterly stupid.🤦‍♀️😳
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Level 77
Jun 12, 2020
Fun fact! The second most used word is used half as much as the first, the third one third as much, etc. This is called Zipf’s law, and it applies to many things!
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Level 39
Jul 9, 2020
The description says that conjugations count as one word, and in practice suppletive conjugations like "am" and "is" are counted as just "be".

Then why isn't a suppletive conjugation like "us" counted together with "we"?

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Level 89
Sep 3, 2020
It took me 16 attempts over three years to finally get above 75 and earn the words badge, but today I've finally done it with 77 answers correct!
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Level 21
Sep 28, 2020
No is used more than yes :D
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Level 68
May 6, 2022
It is because you can say things like "I have no time for this." And "there is no other way". But Yes cannot be used in a sentence like that.
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Level 32
Nov 3, 2020
It's over. XD
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Level 51
Nov 5, 2020
Pretty hard but still got almost all of them :)
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Level 63
Nov 27, 2020
As a non-native speaker I got 60/100 and I almost feel like it is easier if English is not you mother tongue, because you will more likely think about the very common words that you would use.
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Level 27
Dec 21, 2020
That was hard I got 76 I did well didn’t I
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Level 59
Jan 15, 2021
I feel kinda proud to get 76 of them even though english is not my first language (I'm polish) and I'm only 13.
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Level 41
Feb 27, 2021
I got fifty-one answers correct!
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Level 45
Mar 8, 2021
I wasn't expecting antidisestablishmentarianism to be on here.
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Level 57
Mar 11, 2021
I beat 99% (I got 100)
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Level 32
Mar 12, 2021
60/100. Still a great quiz!
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Level 15
Mar 18, 2021
Wow. Great quiz.
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Level 49
Apr 29, 2021
pog i got 78 XD
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Level 51
May 11, 2021
'Got' as a type in for 'get'?
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Level 44
Oct 8, 2024
Let's go and got some fruit from the store
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Level 23
May 20, 2021
I am proud to say I deliberately scored 69 just for the heck of it.
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Level 25
May 26, 2021
Wow, I never noticed that there were than many common words in English, I was exactly average, beating 50.2% of people, and its crazy to think that you don't actually know that many of the words you probably use hundreds of times per day.
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Level 73
Aug 11, 2021
I don't know why this is so hard and I haaaaaate it
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Level 68
Aug 31, 2021
49 first try
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Level 29
Aug 31, 2021
Took me 10 tries but I finally got 75!
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Level 77
Oct 25, 2021
the box at the start says my best score is 65/100 but when i finish it says your high score is 75/100 in a separate box. what's going on? is it something to do with if i've taken it untimed? i'm aware it's not specific to this quiz but i don't know a space for any general Jetpunk comments
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Level 63
Dec 16, 2022
The one at the start is generated before you take the quiz (so shows the best score you’ve gotten previously); the one in the white box is discussing your current attempt, so could give a higher result.
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Level 53
Nov 3, 2021
I don't know how I got 'one' and 'two'.
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Level 52
Dec 21, 2021
It is good that most people who think could even want to work this out,

because any of these give us the most they can do.

so say what up when we make our new well also first come look at it if you know.

For now if i have the most time which he and her use all year

or just like go over there than with me on my way

but how would she take him back some other day.

Or not only get yours into their one from his as its after two

by about then will see them in.

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Level 28
Apr 9, 2024
lol
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Level 36
Aug 24, 2024
cheat sheet
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Level 27
Dec 25, 2021
im ashamed of myself for missing and
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Level 35
Jan 18, 2022
I'm surprised that "ok" is not in the list.
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Level 37
Feb 25, 2022
53 not bad for a 14 year old that lives in non english speaking country but now they all seem so obvious when i see what i missed... LOL
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Level 35
Mar 15, 2022
Got 98 on second try, lol, I have no time to do the other 2
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Level 47
Mar 29, 2022
I got 59, not too bad as English is not my first language
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Level 68
Apr 3, 2022
Surprising to see the word "its" here. I think people say the contraction "IT'S" far more often than the possessive pronoun.
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Level 37
Apr 22, 2022
got all of them with 3:09 left
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Level 27
May 7, 2022
NAILED IT,100/100 1:42 seconds left.
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Level 24
May 13, 2022
WOW I got'em all still 31 seconds left
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Level 83
May 29, 2022
Reading the comments certainly helps. Every answer does appear in them.
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Level 40
Jun 11, 2022
A good strategy for this is to make up sentences in your head, and type words from your sentences that seem like they would fit on this list.
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Level 28
Jun 12, 2022
Crazy how poorly I did on my first try - 44 words and half of them auto-filled when I was typing an incorrect word!
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Level 16
Jun 13, 2022
100% 4:21
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Level 55
Jun 29, 2022
My trick was to sing along to songs I knew off by heart and fill in the words from there
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Level 45
Aug 6, 2022
It took me three minutes. This was nothing compared to the giant squid quiz.https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1425565/name-the-giant-squid
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Level 63
Aug 30, 2022
why dont could and would count for can and will? these are the same verbs just conjugated.
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Level 56
Sep 8, 2022
'got' is past tense of 'get', so it should work yet doesn't
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Level ∞
Sep 8, 2022
Got will work now
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Level 49
Oct 8, 2022
51/100 not bad better than 78% good for a greek
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Level 90
Oct 16, 2022
Yikes. This is my go to quickie test. I've taken it 57 times in 4 years.
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Level 59
Oct 27, 2022
Today was the 1st time I started on this quiz...100% with 2:06 left. Just make sentences out of the words, e.g. First, when will she be there. Would you make most of it even with them? Tricky part is when you catch your typing for words like 'it' which is first 'I' then 'it'....I'm refining my sentences and word order to get through the little words first
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Level 59
Oct 27, 2022
AND THEN I SAW TELEPORT'S AWESOME RAP....SWEET
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Level 68
Dec 16, 2022
Which is the most common five letter word found in English Wikipedia articles. I had code running for days parsing the contents of English Wikipedia and got a ranking for 5 letter words. 'Which' was by far the most common word, which makes sense for an encyclopedia.
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Level 31
Feb 16, 2023
I feel like such an idiot
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Level 41
Mar 8, 2023
Even though I'm a native English speaker, I got 99! So close!
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Level 45
Apr 14, 2023
i got 74, you need 75 for the word badge AARGH!!!
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Level 40
May 1, 2023
oh damn unlucky
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Level 40
May 1, 2023
Aint no way 'is' isn't on the list.
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Level 40
Jun 4, 2023
62/100

Not bad for a french

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Level 47
Oct 7, 2023
So, just what do you think after your first day? Only by now, from my time there, I know these people who have our back. As other than us, most of them like his new work. Because we- they can see its use, the good it would make. Also some, one or two, want her to go on into that well for him, any which way. If, say, she could get in, be their will, take over, and come up with an out... When? This year, even. But then how about he give me a look? no, not at all.

Altered version arranging short words before longer ones:

So, just what do you think a after your first day? On only by no now, from my time the there, I know these people who have our back. As other than us, most of them like his new work. Be because we- they can see it its use, go good would make. Also some, one or two, want he her to in into that well for him, an any which way. If, say, she could get, their will, take over, and come up with out... When? This year, even. But then how about give me look? Not at all.

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Level 43
Oct 17, 2023
having trouble to type and.
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Level 59
Feb 4, 2024
surprisingly difficult. I just think up sentences with simple words and type them out
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Level 24
Apr 9, 2024
55, could've probably done better but still happy with that
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Level 23
Apr 9, 2024
Mom
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Level 54
Apr 10, 2024
this has got to be the quiz that makes you feel the most stupid after finishing
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Level 29
Apr 12, 2024
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And

A

In

That

Have

I

It

For

Not

Word

On

With

He

As

You

Do

At

This

But

His

By

From

They

Word

We

Say

Her

She

Or

An

Will

My

One

All

Would

There

Their

Word

What

So

Up

Out

If

About

Who

Get

Which

Go

Me

When

Make

Word

Can

Like

Time

No

Just

Him

Know

Take

People

Into

Year

Your

Word

Good

Some

Could

Them

See

Other

Than

Then

Now

Look

Only

Come

Word

Its

Over

Think

Also

Back

After

Use

Two

How

Our

Work

First

Word

Well

Way

Even

New

Want

Because

Any

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Day

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Us

+1
Level 20
May 5, 2024
You scored 72/100 = 72%

This beats or equals 95% of test takers

The average score is 40

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Level 42
May 24, 2024
That time when you need 75 for a badge and get 74

*goes to bed crying*

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Level 25
Jun 22, 2024
I have 50 out of 100 and im polish
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Level 43
Jul 14, 2024
Unless one is a hermit... both "Hi" and "Hello" should not just be on this list, but waaaaaaaay up there in the top 5. They are definitely used more than any of the verbs on there. This is an actual challenge.
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Level 40
Aug 22, 2024
What about "is"?
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Level 83
Sep 8, 2024
it's a conjugation of 'to be'