The word 'the' is the most commonly used word written in the English language, which two-letter word comes second?
"middle eight by himself. Samples from this song are also included on ""Love"" released in November 2006, in the track ""Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing"". John Lennon gave Yoko Ono the original sheets to the song just before their relationship began. Paul McCartney has played a medley version of ""The Word""/""All You Need Is Love"" on his On the Run Tour. The Word (song) ""The Word"" is a song by English rock group the Beatles, written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and recorded with Lennon on lead vocals. It was first released on their 1965 album ""Rubber Soul""."
"""The"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. ""The"" can be used with both singular and plural nouns, with nouns of any gender, and with nouns that start with any letter. This is different from many other languages which have different articles for different genders and/or numbers. Since ""the"" is one of the most frequently used words in English, at various times short abbreviations for it have been found: Occasional proposals have been made by individuals for an abbreviation. In 1916, Legros & Grant included in their classic printers' handbook ""Typographical"
"The The is a grammatical article in English, denoting person(s) or thing(s) already mentioned, under discussion, implied, or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners or readers. It is the only definite article in English. ""The"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which merged in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of either gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns and with nouns that start with any letter. This is different from many"
"King James Version of the Bible in places such as Romans 15:29, or in the Mayflower Compact. Historically, the article was never pronounced with a ""y"" sound, even when so written. The The is a grammatical article in English, denoting person(s) or thing(s) already mentioned, under discussion, implied, or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners or readers. It is the only definite article in English. ""The"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, accounting for 7% of all words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which merged in Middle English and now has a single"
"frequent word will occur approximately twice as often as the second most frequent word, three times as often as the third most frequent word, etc.: the rank-frequency distribution is an inverse relation. For example, in the Brown Corpus of American English text, the word ""the"" is the most frequently occurring word, and by itself accounts for nearly 7% of all word occurrences (69,971 out of slightly over 1 million). True to Zipf's Law, the second-place word ""of"" accounts for slightly over 3.5% of words (36,411 occurrences), followed by ""and"" (28,852). Only 135 vocabulary items are needed to account for half"
"is likely to be the word ""the,"" but since ""the"" is the most commonly used word in the English language, it is probable that any given document will have the word ""the"" used very frequently. However, a phrase like ""explicit Boolean algorithm"" might occur in the document at a much higher rate than its average rate in the English language. Hence, it is a phrase unlikely to occur in any given document, but ""did"" occur in the document given. ""Explicit Boolean algorithm"" would be a statistically improbable phrase. Statistically improbable phrases of Darwin's ""On the Origin of Species"" could be:"
"common word in English, ""the"", is written simply 𐑄, as the letter's name is and that is the stressed pronunciation of the word. The consonants with syllabic values are 𐐶 (woo), 𐐷 (yee), 𐐸 (ha), 𐐹 (pee), 𐐺 (be/bee), 𐐻 (tee/tea), 𐐽 (qi), 𐐾 (gee), 𐑀 (gay), and 𐑄 (the/thee). Syllabic values do not apply within words, although this was formerly the case. In early documents, Watt writes ""people"" as 𐐹𐐹𐑊 with the expectation that readers will interpret the first 𐐹 as , but the second 𐐹 as . This contextual value switching was soon done away with, so in"
"E E (named ""e"" , plural ""ees"") is the fifth letter and the second vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon, 'Ε'. This in turn comes from the Semitic letter ""hê"", which has been suggested to have started as a praying or calling human figure (""hillul"" 'jubilation'), and was probably based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated"
"other phenomena, and formed the basis for many later corpora such as the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen Corpus. The tagged corpus enabled far more sophisticated statistical analysis, much of it carried out by graduate student Andrew Mackie. Some of the analysis appears in ""Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar"", by Winthrop Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera, Houghton Mifflin (January, 1983) . One interesting result is that even for quite large samples, graphing words in order of decreasing frequency of occurrence shows a hyperbola: the frequency of the ""n""-th most frequent word is roughly proportional to 1/""n"". Thus ""the"" constitutes nearly 7%"
"ER IN ON AT ND ST ES EN OF TE ED OR TI HI AS TO"", and the most common doubled letters as ""LL EE SS OO TT FF RR NN PP CC"". Also, to note that different dialects of a language will also affect a letter's frequency. For example, an author in the United States would produce something in which the letter 'z' is more common than an author in the United Kingdom writing on the same topic: words like ""analyze"", ""apologize"", and ""recognize"" contain the letter in American English, whereas the same words are spelled ""analyse"", ""apologise"", and"
"a short vowel, the way for example P is doubled to indicate the difference between 'super' and 'supper'. However, that is changing with newly coined words, such as 'divvy up' and 'skivvies'. Like J, K, Q, X, and Z, V is not used very frequently in English. It is the sixth least frequently used letter in the English language, with a frequency of about 1.03% in words. V is the only letter that cannot be used to form an English two-letter word in the Australian version of the game of Scrabble. C also cannot be used in the American version."
"more widely used in Greek than the word ""the"" in English. For example, proper names often take a definite article (e.g. , ""ho Sōkrátēs"", ""Socrates""), as do abstract nouns (e.g. , , ""wisdom""). It is also used in combination with possessive adjectives and demonstratives in phrases such as () ""my city"" and () ""this city"". Adjectives are usually placed between the article and noun, e.g. () ""my father"", but sometimes after the noun, in which case the article is repeated before the adjective: () ""my father"". Dependent genitive noun phrases can also be positioned between the article and noun, for"
"presses. An analysis of entries in the Concise Oxford dictionary, ignoring frequency of word use, gives an order of ""EARIOTNSLCUDPMHGBFYWKVXZJQ"". The letter-frequency table below is taken from Pavel Mička's website, which cites Robert Lewand's ""Cryptological Mathematics"". According to Lewand, arranged from most to least common in appearance, the letters are: etaoinshrdlcumwfgypbvkjxqz. Lewand's ordering differs slightly from others, such as Cornell University Math Explorer's Project, which produced a table after measuring 40,000 words. In English, the space is slightly more frequent than the top letter (e) and the non-alphabetic characters (digits, punctuation, etc.) collectively occupy the fourth position (having already included"
"English word ""the"") are ""la"" (feminine singular), ""lo"" (masculine singular) and ""li"" (plural for both), but in reality these forms will probably only be found in older literature (along with ""lu"" and even ""el""), of which there is much to be found. Modern Neapolitan uses, almost entirely, shortened forms of these articles which are: Before a word beginning with a consonant: These definite articles are always pronounced distinctly. Before a word beginning with a vowel, ""l’"" or ""ll’"" are used for both masculine and feminine, for both singular and plural. Although both forms can be found, the ""ll’"" form is"
"""the dog's name"". The reference is also found in Ben Jonson's ""English Grammar"". The letter is the eighth most common letter in English and the fourth-most common consonant (after , , and ). The letter is used to form the ending ""-re"", which is used in certain words such as ""centre"" in some varieties of English spelling, such as British English. Canadian English also uses the ""-re"" ending, unlike American English, where the ending is usually replaced by ""-er"" (""center""). This does not affect pronunciation. represents a rhotic consonant in many languages, as shown in the table below. Other languages"
"better works. In British Sign Language (BSL), the letter 'e' is signed by extending the index finger of the right hand touching the tip of index on the left hand, with all fingers of left hand open. E E (named ""e"" , plural ""ees"") is the fifth letter and the second vowel in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in many languages, including Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish. The Latin letter 'E' differs little from its source, the Greek letter epsilon,"
"has been derived from frequency of use (FoU) statistics, plus additional considerations, such as the most frequent two- and three-letter combinations found in words. As much as possible, such combinations need to be placed as non-blocking sequences. Whilst the letter E is normally regarded as the most common letter in the English language, one should not ignore the Space character, as it is nearly twice as frequent; additionally, in punctuation, the comma and full-stop are more frequent than the letters KVJZXQ. Directional or cursor keys have also been subject to changes in design approach. Whilst the earlier PC-XT compatible Model"
"most common bigram, and the is the most common trigram. This strongly suggests that X~t, L~h and I~e. The second most common letter in the cryptogram is E; since the first and second most frequent letters in the English language, e and t are accounted for, Eve guesses that E~a, the third most frequent letter. Tentatively making these assumptions, the following partial decrypted message is obtained. Using these initial guesses, Eve can spot patterns that confirm her choices, such as ""that"". Moreover, other patterns suggest further guesses. ""Rtate"" might be ""state"", which would mean R~s. Similarly ""atthattMZe"" could be guessed"
"other than ""l"", practice varies for some words, such as where the final syllable has secondary stress or an unreduced vowel. In the United States, the spellings ""kidnaped"" and ""worshiped"", which were introduced by the ""Chicago Tribune"" in the 1920s, are common, but ""kidnapped"" and ""worshipped"" prevail. ""Kidnapped"" and ""worshipped"" are the only standard British spellings. However, ""focused"" is the predominant spelling in both British and American English, ""focussed"" being just a minor variant in British English. Miscellaneous: Conversely, there are words where British writers prefer a single ""l"" and Americans a double ""l"". In American usage, the spelling of"
"the same list subdivided by part of speech. The list labeled ""Others"" includes pronouns, possessives, articles, modal verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions. Most common words in English Studies that estimate and rank the most common words in English examine texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the Oxford English Corpus (OEC), a very large collection of texts from around the world that are written in the English language. A ""text corpus"" is a large collection of written works that are organised in a way that makes such analysis easier. In total, the"
"a category that refers inclusively to Hindi and Indian languages, with English, led to the emergence of the linguistic phenomenon now known as Hinglish. Many common Indic words such as 'pyjamas', 'karma', 'guru' and 'yoga' were incorporated into English usage, and vice versa ('road', 'sweater', and 'plate'). This is in parallel with several other similar hybrids around the world, like Spanglish (Spanish + English) and Taglish (Tagalog + English). In recent years, due to an increase in literacy and connectivity, the interchange of languages has reached new heights, especially due to increasing online immersion. English is the most widely used"
"and towns mostly do not take the article (""Europe"", ""Skye"", ""Germany"", ""Scandinavia"", ""Yorkshire"", ""Madrid""). However, there are certain exceptions: Since ""the"" is one of the most frequently used words in English, at various times short abbreviations for it have been found: Occasional proposals have been made by individuals for an abbreviation. In 1916, Legros & Grant included in their classic printers' handbook ""Typographical Printing-Surfaces"", a proposal for a letter similar to Ħ to represent ""Th"", thus abbreviating ""the"" to ħe. Why they did not propose reintroducing to the English language """"þ"""", for which blocks were already available for use in"
"language, ""N"" is the number of words in the English language and, if we use the classic version of Zipf's law, the exponent ""s"" is 1. ""f""(""k""; ""s"",""N"") will then be the fraction of the time the ""k""th most common word occurs. The law may also be written: where ""H"" is the ""N""th generalized harmonic number. The simplest case of Zipf's law is a ""⁄ function."" Given a set of Zipfian distributed frequencies, sorted from most common to least common, the second most common frequency will occur ½ as often as the first. The third most common frequency will occur"
"of the two pronunciations, but the stressed-second-syllable variant has been established for over 75 years. It has been suggested that speakers of British English prefer () while North American speakers more typically use (), but major American dictionaries and other sources list the stress on the third syllable as more common in American English too. According to the American version of Oxford Online Dictionaries, the stress on the second syllable is becoming more common in UK English and is increasingly considered ""by some"" to be more up to date and more ""correct"". The Oxford Online Dictionaries claim that the stress"
"T T (named ""tee"" ) is the 20th letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used consonant and the second most common letter in English-language texts. ""Taw"" was the last letter of the Western Semitic and Hebrew alphabets. The sound value of Semitic ""Taw"", Greek alphabet Tαυ (""Tau""), Old Italic and Latin T has remained fairly constant, representing in each of these; and it has also kept its original basic shape in most of these alphabets. In English, usually denotes the voiceless alveolar plosive ( and X-SAMPA: ), as in"
"the most frequently learned, most commonly used English words. Both tools use these words. But many words are chosen for the intended purpose. For example, Special English uses words a US government news broadcaster might need, such as Congress, federal, administration, capitalism and recession. Specialized replaces some of these words with words used for religious subjects, such as blessing, prayer, miracle, and faith. Further revisions of the Specialized English list were made in 2000 and 2007, in the light of experience. Still, the overlap of the two vocabularies is 91.3%. The Specialized English word list allows greater breadth of meaning"
"especially when heard over the telephone or a radio communications link. Spelling alphabets such as the ICAO spelling alphabet, used by aircraft pilots, police and others, are designed to eliminate this potential confusion by giving each letter a name that sounds quite different from any other. The letter most commonly used in English is E. The least used letter is Z. The frequencies shown in the table may differ in practice according to the type of text. The & has sometimes appeared at the end of the English alphabet, as in Byrhtferð's list of letters in 1011. Historically, the figure"
"such as in ""Ye Olde Shoppe"". ""The"" was often written """" (here the ""e"" is written above the other letter to save space but it could also be written on the line). The lower letter is thorn, commonly written þ but which in handwritten scripts could resemble a ""y"" as shown. Thus the article ""The"" was written ""Þe"" and never ""Ye"". The ""thorn"" character was supplanted during the later phases of Middle English and the earlier phases of Early Modern English by the modern digraph ""th"". Medieval printing presses did not contain the letter thorn so the letter y was"
"Most common words in English Studies that estimate and rank the most common words in English examine texts written in English. Perhaps the most comprehensive such analysis is one that was conducted against the Oxford English Corpus (OEC), a very large collection of texts from around the world that are written in the English language. A ""text corpus"" is a large collection of written works that are organised in a way that makes such analysis easier. In total, the texts in the Oxford English Corpus contain more than 2 billion words. The OEC includes a wide variety of writing samples,"
"years. The most commonly used words in English are West Germanic. The words in English learned first by children as they learn to speak, particularly the grammatical words that dominate the word count of both spoken and written texts, are mainly the Germanic words inherited from the earliest periods of the development of Old English. But one of the consequences of long language contact between French and English in all stages of their development is that the vocabulary of English has a very high percentage of ""Latinate"" words (derived from French, especially, and also from Latin and other Romance languages)."
"In English writing, quotation marks are placed in pairs around a word or phrase to indicate: In American writing, double quotes are used normally (the primary style). If quote marks are used inside another pair of quote marks, then single quotes are used as the secondary style. For example: ""Didn't she say 'I like red best' when I asked her wine preferences?"" he asked his guests. If another set of quotes is nested, double quotes are used again, and they continue to alternate as necessary (though this is rarely done). British publishing is regarded as more flexible about whether double"
"the alphabet appear more often than others; in English, ""E"" is likely to be the most common letter in any sample of plaintext. Similarly, the digraph ""TH"" is the most likely pair of letters in English, and so on. Frequency analysis relies on a cipher failing to hide these statistics. For example, in a simple substitution cipher (where each letter is simply replaced with another), the most frequent letter in the ciphertext would be a likely candidate for ""E"". Frequency analysis of such a cipher is therefore relatively easy, provided that the ciphertext is long enough to give a reasonably"
"of just 0.1% in words. Only is used less often. is the 24th letter in relative frequency as the first letter of an English word. In most European languages written in the Latin script, such as in Romance and Germanic languages, appears almost exclusively in the digraph . In French, Occitan, Catalan and Portuguese, represents or ; in Spanish, it represents . replaces for before front vowels and , since in those languages represents a fricative or affricate before front vowels. In Italian represents (where is the semivowel allophone of ). It is not considered to be part of the"