Common English Words List

I had this briliant concept that needed a tag style search engine. Only the idea wasn't brilliant so now I just have a list of common english words

I basically created the list by analyzing a whole bunch of online news articles using a php script I wrote. This allowed me to quickly generate a pretty good list.

I'm sure there's a few words that you'll want to add to the list but it should be a good starting point.

The contractions list contains some words that aren't, strictly speaking, contractions and some very archaic text contractions which you might want to edit out depending on your purposes.

If you use any of the downloads, it would be nice if you could provide a link back to this site. But I'm not going to insist on it since I'm not that pushy and you never listen to me anyways ;)

Downloads Word Lists

I also have a seperate page that has a just english contractions.