The 10 Most-Used Words in the English Language
Merriam-Webster says that while there’s no exact number of words in the English language because it’s flexible and always changing, certain estimates put the total around 1 million. If you remove obscure words that are rarely used, that number shrinks to a still-impressive 470,000, give or take a few thousand.
Of course, some of those words are much more common in everyday writing and speaking than others. In fact, there’s evidence that only 10 words make up roughly 25% of all English words written down on paper. These most frequently used words were determined by the Oxford English Dictionary’s project...
