1000 Common English Verbs
Top 1000 Verbs Out of the 2265 most frequently used words, 1010 were identified as verbs. However, 457 words were primarily used as verbs, while the remaining 553 words were different types but could be used as a verb.
Common English Adjectives
You can now freely download a list of the top 5000 words/lemmas from the 450 million word, which is the only large and balanced corpus of American English. Although there are many word and frequency lists of English on the web, we believe that this list is the most accurate one available (). The free list contains the lemma and part of speech for the top 5,000 words in American English. It is also possible to that contain the top 20-30 collocates (nearby words) for each of these words -- which provides useful information on word meaning and usage -- as well as to see which words are most common in certain genres (e.g. Spoken or academic). It is also possible to download highly accurate lists for the and the top in English, with their top collocates as well. If you want an of the 5,000 word list -- with collocates, genre information, etc -- you can purchase it for about $20.
1000 Common English Phrases Using Daily
Finally, if you are a teacher of children, you might be interested in two free lists created by, which show the most frequent sounds in English, based on a cross-match between the 20,000 word list and the:,.