English words 801–1,500: the “Everyday” band
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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