Word Lists

If you've ever felt overwhelmed by a language's vocabulary, start here. Linguistic research is remarkably consistent: the 1,000 most frequent words of any language cover roughly 85% of everyday spoken and written text. The next 1,000 add diminishing returns. Our word lists distill that insight into focused collections — the top 100, the first 50 for absolute beginners, the essential verbs that carry every sentence, the nouns you'll reach for daily, the adjectives that give your speech color, and the numbers you need for everything from dates to prices. Each list is built from frequency corpora, not guesswork. Pick a language, start with the top 100, and you'll recognize a surprising amount of real conversation within a few weeks.