Downloadable: Top 5000 lemmas frequency list

[Cecile R.]

As of January 2021, English-Corpora.org has now made available for download, at no cost, its most up-to-date (as of late 2019) Top 5000 lemmas frequency list on their WordFrequency.info site. The free downloadable list in Excel format can be found here.

The partial list is extracted from the Corpus of Contemporary American English's frequency data, described as "probably the most accurate word frequency data for English...based on the one billion word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) -- the only corpus of English that is large, up-to-date, and balanced between many genres".

What's impressive is that, unlike other lists, this particular list covers 8 genres: blogs, other web, TV/Movies, (more formal) spoken, fiction, magazine, newspaper, and academic.

Just thought the above was worth sharing...

~ Cecile Roesler

[Quaverly H. Rothenberg]

Fascinating!  Here is an alphabetical list of the top 100 words from the spoken, academic, and blog categories combined (140 words total, so there is a lot of overlap):

a
about
all
also
and
any
as
as
at
back
be
because
between
but
by
can
child
come
could
data
day
do
during
each
education
find
first
for
from
get
give
go
good
group
have
he
her
here
high
him
his
how
however
i
if
in
into
it
its
just
know
level
like
look
make
man
many
may
me
mean
more
more
my
new
no
not
now
n't
of
on
one
only
or
other
our
out
people
president
program
provide
really
research
right
say
school
see
she
should
so
social
some
state
study
such
system
take
talk
teacher
tell

the

than
that
that
their
them
then
there
there
these
they
thing
think
this
those
through
time
to
to
two
up
us
use
very
want
way
we
well
what
when
which
who
will
with
world
would
yeah
year
yes
you
your

It really is true that the little words are the ones that are everywhere, hiding in plain sight.  You can save so much time if you're able to wrap them into phrasal briefs.

Quaverly H. Rothenberg, ACT
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