first20hours/google-10000-english
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This repo contains a list of the 10,000 most common English words in order of frequency, as determined by n-gram frequency analysis of the Google's Trillion Word Corpus.
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2017-04-18 · latest 2026-03-10
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…and the title here on HN says "10k* most common". The original corpus has exactly 10,000 words. https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/blob/d0... The first 21 include all four we've mentioned: the, of, and, to, a, in, for,…
comment by Cyphase · 2026-03-10 · in Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other -
…thing I learned from this blog post is that "phpbb" has made it into a top-10000 English word list: https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/blob/ma...
comment by pavel_lishin · 2025-08-28 · in Finding cool CA license plates -
…word it is. This Google dataset puts it as the 5,109th most frequent word, between cached and slip https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english/blob/ma... This one from the British National Corpus puts it 7,702nd between "pro" and…
comment by richmarr · 2017-04-18 · in Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow