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Most commonly used words in the English language
// #1: 100 top words
// Only includes lexemes. E.g. "be" is included, but not "is", "are", "were", or "was".
// From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
["the","be","to","of","and","a","in","that","have","I","it","for","not","on","with","he","as","you","do","at","this","but","his","by","from","they","we","say","her","she","or","an","will","my","one","all","would","there","their","what","so","up","out","if","about","who","get","which","go","me","when","make","can","like","time","no","just","him","know","take","person","into","year","your","good","some","could","them","see","other","than","then","now","look","only","come","its","over","think","also","back","after","use","two","how","our","work","first","well","even","new","want","because","any","these","give","day","most","us"]
// #2: 100 top words + additional verb forms
// Lexemes from original and their common forms are included.
// From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
["the","be","to","of","and","a","in","that","have","I","it","for","not","on","with","he","as","you","do","at","this","but","his","by","from","they","we","say","her","she","or","an","will","my","one","all","would","there","their","what","so","up","out","if","about","who","get","which","go","me","when","make","can","like","time","no","just","him","know","take","person","into","year","your","good","some","could","them","see","other","than","then","now","look","only","come","its","over","think","also","back","after","use","two","how","our","work","first","well","even","new","want","because","any","these","give","day","most","us","are","is","were","was","has","having","had","did","does","doing","done","said","says","saying","goes","going","went","gone","made","making","could","likes","liked","liking","knew","known","knowing","sees","seeing","saw","seen","looks","looked","looking","came","coming","thought","thinking","gave","given","giving"]
// #3: 100 top words + additional verb forms + additional words not in the top 100, but common in their respective parts of speech
// Lexemes from original and their common forms are included.
// From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
["the","be","to","of","and","a","in","that","have","I","it","for","not","on","with","he","as","you","do","at","this","but","his","by","from","they","we","say","her","she","or","an","will","my","one","all","would","there","their","what","so","up","out","if","about","who","get","which","go","me","when","make","can","like","time","no","just","him","know","take","person","into","year","your","good","some","could","them","see","other","than","then","now","look","only","come","its","over","think","also","back","after","use","two","how","our","work","first","well","even","new","want","because","any","these","give","day","most","us","are","is","were","was","has","having","had","did","does","doing","done","said","says","saying","goes","going","went","gone","made","making","could","likes","liked","liking","knew","known","knowing","sees","seeing","saw","seen","looks","looked","looking","came","coming","thought","thinking","gave","given","giving","find","found","finding","finds","tell","told","tells","telling","ask","asks","asking","asked","works","working","worked","seem","seems","seemed","seeming","feel","felt","feels","feeling","try","tries","trying","tried","leave","left","leaves","leaving","call","calling","called","calls","last","long","great","little","own","old","right","big","high","different","small","large","next","early","young","important","few","public","bad","same","able","many","beneath","under","above"]
// Only the words in #1
["the","be","to","of","and","a","in","that","have","I","it","for","not","on","with","he","as","you","do","at","this","but","his","by","from","they","we","say","her","she","or","an","will","my","one","all","would","there","their","what","so","up","out","if","about","who","get","which","go","me","when","make","can","like","time","no","just","him","know","take","person","into","year","your","good","some","could","them","see","other","than","then","now","look","only","come","its","over","think","also","back","after","use","two","how","our","work","first","well","even","new","want","because","any","these","give","day","most","us"]
// The additional words in #2
["are","is","were","was","has","having","had","did","does","doing","done","said","says","saying","goes","going","went","gone","made","making","could","likes","liked","liking","knew","known","knowing","sees","seeing","saw","seen","looks","looked","looking","came","coming","thought","thinking","gave","given","giving"]
// The additional words in #3
["find","found","finding","finds","tell","told","tells","telling","ask","asks","asking","asked","works","working","worked","seem","seems","seemed","seeming","feel","felt","feels","feeling","try","tries","trying","tried","leave","left","leaves","leaving","call","calling","called","calls","last","long","great","little","own","old","right","big","high","different","small","large","next","early","young","important","few","public","bad","same","able","many","beneath","under","above"]
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