英语最常用单词列表中的内容是基于牛津字典線上版和牛津英语词典对牛津英语语料库中超过10亿的单词所作的分析研究。这一个资源汇集了各种类的文本，包括“从文学小说、专业期刊到每日的报纸杂志，从英国国会议事录到聊天室、电子邮件以及网络博客”，这与其他一些语料库只收集确定来源的文本不同。

需要注意的是下表所列出的项可能代表了不止一个单词，而是词条。例如be就包括了is、was、be和are。另外，下面列出的最常用的100个单词在牛津英语语料库中占到了所有单词的50%。

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词类
名词

time

person

year

way

day

thing

man

world

life

hand

part

child

eye

woman

place

work

week

case

point

government

company

number

group

problem

fact

动词

be

have

do

say

get

make

go

know

take

see

come

think

look

want

give

use

find

tell

ask

work

seem

feel

try

leave

call

形容词

good

new

first

last

long

great

little

own

other

old

right

big

high

different

small

large

next

early

young

important

few

public

bad

same

able

介词

to

of

in

for

on

with

at

by

from

up

about

into

over

after

beneath

under

above

其他

the

and

a

that

I

it

not

he

as

you

this

but

his

they

her

she

or

an

will

my

one

all

would

there

their

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