Graph of the top 5k English words and Link to Top 100 
The table below shows the top 5,000 words of English as counted by
Collins Cobuild. The total instances are 15.4 million with the top
word "the" having 1M instances. It shows that the top 100 words are
more than 50% of the words in typical text (books, mags, papers etc.)
People know up to 30k English words http://bit.ly/3cyfqXv
The top 100 words make up half the words in print/speech
See truespel analysis o the top 100 US English words
frequency phonetics and slang at http://bit.ly/100topwords
| per 100 | accum % | accum | added | added |
| words | of 5k | instances | increment | % |
| 100 | 57.6% | 8,867,184 | 8,867,184 | 57.60% |
| 200 | 65.7% | 10,114,867 | 1,247,683 | 8.10% |
| 300 | 70.2% | 10,804,649 | 689,782 | 4.50% |
| 400 | 73.4% | 11,290,612 | 485,963 | 3.20% |
| 500 | 75.8% | 11,673,687 | 383,075 | 2.50% |
| 600 | 77.9% | 11,986,128 | 312,441 | 2.00% |
| 700 | 79.5% | 12,243,223 | 257,095 | 1.70% |
| 800 | 81.0% | 12,464,374 | 221,151 | 1.40% |
| 900 | 82.2% | 12,658,378 | 194,004 | 1.30% |
| 1000 | 83.4% | 12,830,190 | 171,812 | 1.10% |
| 1100 | 84.4% | 12,987,133 | 156,943 | 1.00% |
| 1200 | 85.3% | 13,130,835 | 143,702 | 0.90% |
| 1300 | 86.2% | 13,264,578 | 133,743 | 0.90% |
| 1400 | 87.0% | 13,388,697 | 124,119 | 0.80% |
| 1500 | 87.7% | 13,504,876 | 116,179 | 0.80% |
| 1600 | 88.4% | 13,613,921 | 109,045 | 0.70% |
| 1700 | 89.1% | 13,715,884 | 101,963 | 0.70% |
| 1800 | 89.7% | 13,811,764 | 95,880 | 0.60% |
| 1900 | 90.3% | 13,902,179 | 90,415 | 0.60% |
| 2000 | 90.9% | 13,987,629 | 85,450 | 0.60% |
| 2100 | 91.4% | 14,068,533 | 80,904 | 0.50% |
| 2200 | 91.9% | 14,145,197 | 76,664 | 0.50% |
| 2300 | 92.4% | 14,217,800 | 72,603 | 0.50% |
| 2400 | 92.8% | 14,285,992 | 68,192 | 0.40% |
| 2500 | 93.2% | 14,351,260 | 65,268 | 0.40% |
| 2600 | 93.6% | 14,413,948 | 62,688 | 0.40% |
| 2700 | 94.0% | 14,473,838 | 59,890 | 0.40% |
| 2800 | 94.4% | 14,530,979 | 57,141 | 0.40% |
| 2900 | 94.8% | 14,586,242 | 55,263 | 0.40% |
| 3000 | 95.1% | 14,639,491 | 53,249 | 0.30% |
| 3100 | 95.4% | 14,691,029 | 51,538 | 0.30% |
| 3200 | 95.8% | 14,740,778 | 49,749 | 0.30% |
| 3300 | 96.1% | 14,788,627 | 47,849 | 0.30% |
| 3400 | 96.4% | 14,834,665 | 46,038 | 0.30% |
| 3500 | 96.7% | 14,879,101 | 44,436 | 0.30% |
| 3600 | 96.9% | 14,921,945 | 42,844 | 0.30% |
| 3700 | 97.2% | 14,963,276 | 41,331 | 0.30% |
| 3800 | 97.5% | 15,003,187 | 39,911 | 0.30% |
| 3900 | 97.7% | 15,041,616 | 38,429 | 0.20% |
| 4000 | 98.0% | 15,078,751 | 37,135 | 0.20% |
| 4200 | 98.4% | 15,149,360 | 34,764 | 0.20% |
| 4400 | 98.9% | 15,215,742 | 32,680 | 0.20% |
| 4600 | 99.3% | 15,278,284 | 30,826 | 0.20% |
| 4800 | 99.6% | 15,337,074 | 28,901 | 0.20% |
| 5000 | 100.0% | 15,392,580 | 27,405 | 0.20% |
