One of the most intimidating things about learning English is the huge number of words to know. English has over 100,000 word families, which are words with the same root (like “played”, “playful” and “playing” which all share the root word “play”). It also gains around three new words every day… yikes!
But research shows that there’s no reason to be scared. Why? Because you will be able to understand about 65% of all written material in the English language with only the 300 most frequently used words. Keep reading to learn more or discover online English lessons for beginners on Preply.
The 300 most common words in English
We’ve collected the most common English words below, split into the major word classes (verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs) and four more word classes (prepositions, pronouns, conjunctions, and contractions). If you see some words repeated in these lists, don’t forget that many English words can be in more than one class.
