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What are the most commonly used words in the English language? This huge list — with an elegantly interactive sliding scale — ranks ‘em: from ‘the’ (No. 1) to ‘conquistador’ (No. 86,800).

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Arsenio Billingham
Tue 09/30/08 3:46 PM

They even have swear words! SWEAR WORDS!! God, I’m immature.

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Grace
Tue 09/30/08 4:08 PM

Awesome site! I’m obviously going to have to use conquistador more often

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wg
Tue 09/30/08 6:09 PM

Isn’t ‘conquistador’ Spanish?

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Arsenio Billingham
Tue 09/30/08 9:57 PM

I think all comments from here on out should be in code from that site:
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Em
Wed 10/01/08 12:09 AM

Oh my gosh, I’m going to waste my life reading all 86,000 words.

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Fri 01/02/09 5:30 PM

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Fri 01/02/09 8:55 PM

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