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List of the 1000 most common English headwords (i.e., the dictionary or encyclopedia entries under which a set of related words appear) according to the British National Corpus and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (BNC/COCA).

Usage

words

Format

A data frame with 1000 observations of 2 variables

word

an English (head)word

frequency

number of occurrences

Source

Sourced from https://www.eapfoundation.com/vocab/general/bnccoca/ on March 21, 2025