1. The First 400 Most Commonly Used English Words Taken from: The Reading Teachers Book of Lists, Third Edition, by Edward Bernard Fry, Ph.D, Jacqueline E. Kress, Ed.D& Dona Lee Fountoukidis, Ed.D

2. body

3. music

4. color

5. stand

6. sun

7. questions

8. fish

9. area

10. mark

11. dog

12. horse

13. birds

14. problem

15. complete

16. room

17. knew

18. since

19. ever

20. piece

21. told

22. usually

23. didn’t

24. friends

25. easy

26. heard

27. order

28. red

29. door

30. sure

31. become

32. top

33. ship

34. across

35. today

36. during

37. short

38. better

39. best

40. however

41. low

42. hours

43. black

44. products

45. happened

46. whole

47. measure

48. remember

49. early

50. waves

51. reached

52. listen

53. wind

54. rock

55. space

56. covered

57. fast

58. several

59. hold

60. himself

61. toward

62. five

63. step

64. morning

65. passed

66. vowel

67. true

68. hundred

69. against

70. pattern

71. numeral

72. table

73. north

74. slowly

75. money

76. map

77. farm

78. pulled

79. draw

80. voice

81. seen

82. cold

83. cried

84. plan

85. notice

86. south

87. sing

88. war

89. ground

90. fall

91. king

92. town

93. I’ll

94. unit

95. figure

96. certain

97. field

98. travel

99. wood

100. fire

101. upon