Frequency Bands for The Most Common English Words
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Band 8
the, a, an, this, that, I, you, he, she, him, he, that, which, what, who …
Band 7
man, woman, person, boy, girl, hand, eye, head, foot, blood, year, day …
Band 6
dog, horse, ship, machine, mile, assessment, army, career, stress, gas …
Band 5
surveillance, assimilation, tumult, penchant, paraphrase, admixture, conditional …
Band 4
astrological, egregious, insolent, Jungian, combative, bipartisan, cocksure …
Band 3
ebullition, merengue, amortizable, prelapsarian, contumacious, agglutinative …
Band 2
decanate, ennead, geogenic, sharawaggi, abactinal, absterge, satinize …
Band 1
abaptiston, abaxile, grithbreach, gurhofite, zarnich, zeagonite …
I stopped paying attention about the middle of Band 2.