1. The First 100 Most Commonly Used English Words
Taken from: The Reading Teachers Book of Lists, Third Edition, by Edward Bernard Fry, Ph.D, Jacqueline E. Kress, Ed.D& Dona Lee Fountoukidis, Ed.D

2. the

3. of

4. and

5. a

6. to

7. in

8. is

9. you

10. that

11. it

12. he

13. was

14. for

15. on

16. are

17. as

18. with

19. his

20. they

21. I

22. at

23. be

24. this

25. have

26. from

27. or

28. one

29. had

30. by

31. word

32. but

33. not

34. what

35. all

36. were

37. we

38. when

39. your

40. can

41. said

42. there

43. use

44. an

45. each

46. which

47. she

48. do

49. how

50. their

51. if

52. will

53. up

54. other

55. about

56. out

57. many

58. then

59. them

60. these

61. so

62. some

63. her

64. would

65. make

66. like

67. him

68. into

69. time

70. has

71. look

72. two

73. more

74. write

75. go

76. see

77. number

78. no

79. way

80. could

81. people

82. my

83. than

84. first

85. been

86. call

87. who

88. oil

89. its

90. its

91. now

92. find

93. long

94. down

95. day

96. did

97. get

98. come

99. made

100. may

101. part