English words 801–1,500: the “Everyday” band
The Everyday band covers English words ranked 801 to 1,500 by frequency — the layer of vocabulary that sits just above the most basic core and fills in everything you need to handle ordinary life. Together with the first 800 words, knowing these 700 words brings you close to the point where roughly 80% of everyday text stops feeling like guesswork. Think words like opinion, beyond, remind, schedule, and willing — not rare, but not the first ones a beginner learns either.
On Beeblio, each word is ranked using the wordfreq corpus, so the bands reflect real usage across books, websites, and conversation rather than any single textbook's idea of "common." When you read a text pinned to the Everyday band, unknown words above rank 1,500 are highlighted so you can focus your attention on vocabulary that is genuinely worth learning next.
If you can read an Everyday-band text comfortably — catching most words without stopping — you are ready to move into the Extended band (ranks 1,501–3,000) and start tackling more varied, topic-specific reading.
700 English words ranked 801–1,500 by frequency — the “Everyday” band. A learner who knows them can read texts pinned to this band with about 95% of the words already familiar.
- brother
- cannot
- character
- chief
- cup
- football
- hate
- haven't
- james
- led
- looked
- lower
- natural
- october
- property
- quality
- send
- style
- u
- vote
- amazing
- august
- blood
- china
- complete
- dog
- economic
- hell
- involved
- itself
- language
- lord
- november
- oil
- related
- serious
- stage
- terms
- title
- add
- article
- attack
- born
- couldn't
- damn
- decided
- decision
- enjoy
- entire
- french
- january
- kill
- met
- perhaps
- poor
- release
- situation
- technology
- turned
- website
- written
- choice
- code
- considered
- continue
- council
- cover
- currently
- door
- election
- european
- events
- f
- financial
- foreign
- hair
- increase
- legal
- lose
- michael
- pick
- race
- seem
- seven
- sign
- simple
- simply
- staff
- super
- union
- walk
- washington
- bed
- began
- built
- career
- changed
- crazy
- daily
- daughter
- december
- die
- difficult
- figure
- hospital
- knows
- loss
- modern
- ones
- paper
- parts
- popular
- published
- safe
- starting
- systems
- version
- voice
- whose
- writing
- army
- australia
- earth
- forget
- goal
- h
- huge
- internet
- listen
- okay
- practice
- rules
- sea
- sir
- success
- towards
- v
- waiting
- ways
- access
- aren't
- base
- below
- created
- deep
- followed
- la
- lol
- mark
- missing
- offer
- pass
- professional
- released
- risk
- schools
- sleep
- table
- ten
- truth
- ball
- box
- build
- card
- cases
- dark
- district
- europe
- george
- india
- mine
- minister
- note
- percent
- piece
- products
- recent
- seeing
- straight
- visit
- wall
- wanna
- we've
- wrote
- allowed
- boys
- culture
- etc
- fans
- february
- gives
- growth
- included
- married
- officer
- pain
- paul
- places
- respect
- response
- river
- rock
- shall
- speak
- specific
- standard
- tonight
- write
- y
- album
- century
- charge
- cold
- create
- effect
- eight
- except
- eye
- funny
- ii
- limited
- moving
- network
- peace
- provided
- recently
- required
- sales
- spent
- store
- student
- tomorrow
- track
- via
- watching
- weight
- addition
- ahead
- allow
- anti
- association
- beat
- brown
- capital
- chinese
- committee
- conference
- difference
- double
- expect
- gas
- island
- moved
- normal
- plans
- population
- potential
- pressure
- radio
- russian
- station
- text
- treatment
- western
- ass
- beginning
- california
- campaign
- certainly
- completely
- content
- credit
- cross
- described
- despite
- female
- focus
- g
- hi
- husband
- ice
- individual
- interesting
- j
- join
- kept
- leading
- loved
- message
- miles
- nearly
- particular
- previous
- quickly
- region
- reported
- section
- sort
- speed
- travel
- consider
- contact
- drop
- fair
- feet
- jesus
- kid
- link
- positive
- sale
- throughout
- tour
- welcome
- absolutely
- additional
- beyond
- conditions
- earlier
- extra
- forces
- immediately
- jobs
- leaving
- minute
- nature
- numbers
- quick
- sell
- significant
- studies
- unless
- winning
- agree
- canada
- clean
- computer
- construction
- episode
- favorite
- income
- justice
- levels
- manager
- movement
- photo
- posted
- safety
- san
- scene
- sold
- sounds
- spend
- statement
- sun
- teams
- ability
- announced
- asking
- calling
- coach
- collection
- continued
- costs
- definitely
- designed
- expected
- friday
- gun
- happens
- heavy
- includes
- knowledge
- particularly
- search
- subject
- train
- wide
- wow
- author
- centre
- claim
- dad
- developed
- fear
- fit
- generally
- german
- global
- goals
- gotta
- hotel
- interested
- judge
- lady
- leader
- letter
- lines
- material
- named
- nobody
- opportunity
- plus
- pre
- product
- regular
- secretary
- sister
- stories
- unit
- workers
- annual
- anymore
- bar
- battle
- brain
- contract
- degree
- families
- features
- finished
- floor
- france
- growing
- hurt
- image
- insurance
- majority
- meant
- opening
- opinion
- physical
- pro
- reach
- rule
- seriously
- sports
- stupid
- successful
- active
- administration
- approach
- australian
- biggest
- cancer
- civil
- dance
- defense
- direction
- independent
- master
- none
- reasons
- russia
- ship
- stock
- trump
- weekend
- wonder
- worst
- africa
- awesome
- band
- beach
- cash
- clearly
- commercial
- compared
- effort
- ended
- fan
- fighting
- imagine
- impact
- lack
- latest
- learning
- multiple
- older
- operation
- organization
- passed
- pictures
- protect
- secret
- senior
- spring
- sunday
- telling
- wear
- activities
- address
- analysis
- anyway
- bought
- calls
- choose
- christmas
- color
- commission
- competition
- details
- direct
- dream
- easily
- finish
- grand
- here's
- increased
- indian
- k
- literally
- luck
- marriage
- names
- necessary
- patients
- resources
- rich
- skin
- speaking
- supposed
- sweet
- thus
- touch
- yesterday
- caught
- closed
- congress
- damage
- directly
- disease
- doctor
- doubt
- drink
- driving
- established
- feels
- fish
- gay
- germany
- glad
- greater
- grow
- largest
- machine
- notice
- overall
- planning
- professor
- programs
- records
- reports
- shown
- sit
- trip
- associated
- basic
- captain
- carry
- cars
- crime
- effective
- effects
- explain
- fully
- highly
- holding
- japan
- laws
- male
- mrs
- parties
- plant
- reality
- smith
- spot
- texas
- we'll
- winter
- worse
- advice
- agreement
- ain't
- award
- block
- broken
- caused
- challenge
- characters
- christian
- comment
- equipment
- eventually
- helped
- holy
- killing
- lived
- lots
- nation
- otherwise
- peter
- prices
- primary
- purpose
- rates
- responsible
- shop
- showing
- sick
- teacher
- theory
- uses
- william
- agency
- avoid
- camera
- catch
- cell
- coast
- comments
- drug
- economy
- environment
- executive
- foot
- hall
- mass
- meaning
- mission
- nine
- officers
- operations
- politics
- pop
- produced
- ran
- saturday
- status
- therefore
- trial
- truly
- weather
- activity
- app
- application
- claims
- coffee
- complex
- condition
- division
- evening
- flight
- freedom
- heat
- highest
- interview
- library
- located
- location
- murder
- obama
- offered
- putting
- queen
- seconds
- showed
- sitting
- standing
- stars
- walking
- accept
- actual
- appear
- attempt
- broke
- channel
- distance
- eating
- exchange
- fat
- fell
- finding
- glass
- learned
- losing
- mobile
- northern
- opened
- placed
- powerful
- prior
- protection
- reached
- receive
- religious
- ride
- robert
- royal
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First words (300) · Getting by (800) · Confident (3,000) · Fluent reader (5,000) · Advanced (8,000) · Near-native (12,000)
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Questions
What kinds of words are in the 801–1,500 range?
These are words you encounter constantly in real life but probably learned after the basics — things like <em>aware</em>, <em>deliver</em>, <em>formal</em>, <em>suffer</em>, and <em>throughout</em>. They are common enough to appear in most news articles and everyday conversations, yet specific enough that a beginner might not recognise them straight away.
How does Beeblio decide which band a word belongs to?
Beeblio uses frequency ranks from the wordfreq corpus, which is built from a large, balanced mix of real-world text including books, web pages, and subtitles. A word's rank reflects how often it appears across all that material, so rank 800 simply means 799 English words appear more frequently than it does.
Can I use Everyday-band texts if I already know most of these words?
Yes — Everyday-band texts are useful for consolidating vocabulary you half-know and for building reading fluency before tackling harder material. If you find you're breezing through without any highlighted words slowing you down, that's a good sign it's time to try the Extended band (ranks 1,501–3,000).