word frequency list of the 60,000 most common English words
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Natural Language Processing (NLP):
Word Frequency List 60000 English.xlsx is a comprehensive dataset derived from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
- Word sense ambiguity – Frequency lists count word forms, not meanings. Bank (river vs. money) is one entry.
- Corpus bias – A list from news texts differs from one built from Twitter or academic papers. Check the source.
- No context – Use the list alongside example sentences or collocation data.
- 60,000 includes many rare forms – You may see obscure plurals, archaic verbs, or misspellings if the corpus wasn't cleaned.