Word Bank of 1200 High-Frequency Writing Words

The words in this word bank are listed in the order of their frequency of use in everyday writing. Since the is the most frequently used word in our language, its number is one in the word bank. The first 25 words are used in 33% of everyday writing, the first 100 words appear in 50% of adult and student writing, and the first 1,000 words are used in 89% of everyday writing. 1 the 2 of 3 and 4 a 5 to 6 in 7 is 8 you 9 that 10 it 11 he 12 for 13 was 14 on 15 are 16 as 17 with 18 his 19 they 20 at 21 be 22 this 23 from 24 I 25 have 26 or 27 by 28 one 29 had 30 not 31 but 32 what 33 all 34 were 35 when 36 we 37 there 38 can 39 an 40 your 41 which 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 feet land side without boy once animal life enough took four head above kind began almost live page got earth need far hand high year mother light country father let night picture being study second soon story since white ever paper 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 round dark past ball girl road blue instead either held already warm gone finally summer understand moon animals mind outside power problem longer winter deep heavy carefully follow beautiful everyone leave everything game system bring watch shell dry within floor ice 601 shape 602 eight 603 edge 604 soft 605 village 606 object 607 age 608 minute 609 wall 610 meet 611 record 612 copy 613 forest 614 especially 615 necessary 616 he's 617 unit 618 flat 619 direction 620 south 621 subject 622 skin 623 wasn't 624 I've 625 yellow 626 party 627 force 628 test 629 bad 630 temperature 631 pair 632 ahead 633 wrong 634 practice 635 sand 636 tail 637 wait 638 difficult 639 general 640 cover 801 sell 802 wire 803 rose 804 cotton 805 spoke 806 rope 807 fear 808 shore 809 throughout 810 compare 811 movement 812 exercise 813 bread 814 process 815 nature 816 apart 817 path 818 careful 819 narrow 820 mental 821 nine 822 useful 823 public 824 according 825 steel 826 salt 827 speech 828 forth 829 nation 830 knowledge 831 appear 832 ate 833 dinner 834 hurt 835 spend 836 experiment 837 touch 1001 1002 1003 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 1010 1011 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1020 1021 1022 1023 1024 1025 1026 1027 1028 1029 1030 1031 1032 1033 1034 1035 1036 1037 1038 1039 1040 1041 police consider dozen baseball rubber symbol support exactly industry they're beneath laugh groceries popular thank quarter climbed continue potatoes receive design president charge mistake hospital remain service increase students insects address sincerely dollars belong bottle flight forget bicycle secret soldier silent

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