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We filtered the corpus frequency list down to entries tagged as nouns and took the top 100 in order — nothing was hand-picked.",{"question":740,"answer":741},"Why are so many of these words abstract?","Because abstract nouns are reusable. 'Time', 'way' and 'thing' fit almost any topic, so they appear constantly, while a concrete noun like 'spoon' only turns up when someone is talking about cutlery. Frequency rewards words that work everywhere.",{"question":743,"answer":744},"Some words here are also verbs. Which one is being counted?","Only the noun. Words like work, study, change and point are common as both, and the corpus counts each part of speech separately. The figure shown is the noun's frequency alone, which is why a word can appear on more than one ranking with different numbers.",{"question":746,"answer":747},"Are plurals counted separately?","No. Each entry is a lemma, so 'child' covers children and 'person' covers people where they share a headword. You learn one entry and get its forms with it.",{"question":749,"answer":750},"Is this enough vocabulary to read a newspaper?","Not on its own, but it is the right foundation. These nouns plus the top verbs and adjectives cover the skeleton of most texts; the rest is topic vocabulary you pick up faster once the skeleton is solid.",{"heading":752,"paragraphs":753},"Common English nouns explained",[754,755,756,757],"Nouns make up the largest word class in English by far — hundreds of thousands of them — which means no individual noun can be as frequent as a word like 'the'. What the top of this list shows instead is which nouns escaped that dilution: the handful general enough to appear in almost any sentence, on any subject.","Look at the first twenty and a pattern appears. Time, people, year, way, thing, man, day, life. Almost none of them name a physical object. They name units of time, categories of person, and abstractions so broad they are nearly grammatical. 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