5000 Most Common English Words List ~upd~ ✦ Fresh & Newest

A list of the 5000 most common English words acts as a "core" vocabulary that allows you to understand approximately 90–95% of everyday spoken English and common written texts

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# Define a function to filter words by part of speech def filter_by_pos(data, pos): return data[data['pos'] == pos] A list of the 5000 most common English