English words 1,501–3,000: the “Confident” band
1,500 English words ranked 1,501–3,000 by frequency — the “Confident” band. A learner who knows them can read texts pinned to this band with about 95% of the words already familiar.
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- serve
- signed
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- speech
- traffic
- tree
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- vs
- wearing
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- wonderful
- agreed
- airport
- animals
- appears
- begin
- benefits
- bottom
- cities
- demand
- engine
- everybody
- famous
- ideas
- investment
- keeping
- lie
- notes
- partner
- plays
- raised
- runs
- sad
- solution
- songs
- sources
- southern
- square
- stopped
- structure
- thomas
- traditional
- twice
- wind
- worry
- 1st
- americans
- appeared
- becomes
- brand
- bus
- cent
- chicago
- count
- covered
- critical
- digital
- forced
- fourth
- fresh
- lake
- mental
- mentioned
- missed
- mostly
- mouth
- owner
- photos
- previously
- realize
- remain
- scale
- score
- separate
- smart
- starts
- surface
- throw
- tom
- totally
- views
- wedding
- you'd
- acting
- actions
- african
- arms
- benefit
- budget
- click
- estate
- failed
- faith
- fashion
- feature
- fund
- generation
- hearing
- hill
- jack
- larger
- louis
- metal
- mid
- paris
- profile
- pull
- push
- returned
- rose
- seat
- seemed
- sexual
- shouldn't
- target
- understanding
- village
- agent
- animal
- apply
- authority
- basis
- becoming
- chris
- draw
- dude
- employees
- enter
- ex
- follows
- foundation
- gain
- http
- individuals
- japanese
- leaders
- memory
- prime
- projects
- ring
- rise
- selling
- served
- silver
- soul
- spread
- supply
- waste
- weird
- adult
- apparently
- artist
- chairman
- edition
- engineering
- grade
- happening
- healthy
- institute
- method
- mike
- monday
- nations
- obviously
- option
- prison
- provides
- remains
- senate
- smaller
- somebody
- stone
- strength
- users
- wild
- window
- winner
- arrived
- bag
- bet
- camp
- cast
- christ
- continues
- correct
- dangerous
- ed
- extremely
- firm
- greatest
- handle
- improve
- indeed
- leaves
- movies
- negative
- prevent
- removed
- richard
- spirit
- television
- till
- trouble
- usa
- videos
- advantage
- apart
- aware
- cat
- customers
- decide
- dinner
- dollars
- eastern
- fifth
- function
- gift
- helping
- herself
- impossible
- influence
- items
- joe
- los
- marketing
- mary
- materials
- nor
- produce
- progress
- proud
- require
- shooting
- shut
- standards
- tells
- thinks
- van
- wood
- background
- birth
- bridge
- carried
- charles
- classes
- completed
- concept
- copy
- dear
- dogs
- drugs
- efforts
- garden
- host
- housing
- inc
- israel
- journal
- labor
- leadership
- length
- lucky
- neither
- onto
- patient
- possibly
- prove
- rare
- setting
- skills
- software
- thousands
- tough
- units
- ad
- alive
- apple
- balance
- birthday
- bitch
- boss
- cards
- changing
- connection
- dress
- easier
- fellow
- florida
- horse
- knowing
- liked
- magic
- managed
- map
- net
- owned
- request
- stick
- they've
- turns
- vehicle
- volume
- wake
- aid
- beauty
- believed
- billion
- busy
- buying
- cells
- concerned
- conversation
- corner
- criminal
- cultural
- develop
- driver
- ends
- existing
- farm
- file
- fix
- fly
- frank
- guide
- images
- investigation
- mexico
- operating
- paying
- presented
- raise
- responsibility
- roll
- slightly
- suggest
- surprise
- technical
- thoughts
- treat
- unique
- variety
- violence
- weapons
- yours
- youth
- 2nd
- appreciate
- bigger
- breaking
- discovered
- dont
- dry
- edge
- evil
- excited
- forever
- funds
- helps
- henry
- injury
- iron
- lovely
- mad
- magazine
- martin
- models
- offers
- ordered
- parliament
- prepared
- reference
- religion
- sites
- somewhere
- stated
- strategy
- teachers
- web
- wine
- accounts
- angeles
- arm
- audience
- bay
- blog
- closer
- core
- democratic
- description
- dropped
- excellent
- exist
- figures
- forms
- guard
- honest
- issued
- joined
- jones
- lee
- lies
- likes
- medicine
- mention
- mountain
- nuclear
- orders
- port
- presence
- reaction
- reduce
- shoot
- sides
- solid
- spanish
- sport
- steps
- stress
- taste
- tea
- victory
- afternoon
- assistant
- britain
- citizens
- classic
- clothes
- decisions
- electric
- emergency
- entered
- entirely
- facts
- failure
- festival
- flat
- fuel
- harry
- hello
- houses
- ill
- initial
- introduced
- johnson
- kick
- links
- massive
- matters
- pair
- picked
- pieces
- plane
- plenty
- prince
- proper
- providing
- quarter
- regional
- scott
- session
- shape
- sky
- teaching
- toward
- transfer
- upper
- useful
- valley
- watched
- willing
- windows
- zone
- accident
- advanced
- alternative
- anywhere
- articles
- awards
- bear
- boat
- bringing
- capacity
- cheap
- climate
- communities
- discussion
- drinking
- duty
- fantastic
- feelings
- flying
- governor
- hasn't
- hundred
- industrial
- joint
- mix
- museum
- options
- path
- plants
- policies
- promise
- proposed
- purchase
- rain
- remove
- signs
- spending
- steel
- steve
- supporting
- terrible
- they'll
- tired
- treated
- turning
- vice
- warm
- °
- afraid
- arts
- beer
- border
- canadian
- command
- crew
- crowd
- dating
- dick
- elements
- enemy
- ensure
- environmental
- filled
- fixed
- forest
- intelligence
- intended
- labour
- limit
- moon
- ocean
- powers
- profit
- proof
- republican
- soldiers
- suit
- wins
- women's
- appearance
- asian
- attorney
- banks
- behavior
- ben
- bodies
- brothers
- buildings
- chair
- creating
- debt
- domestic
- expensive
- grew
- historical
- homes
- honestly
- honor
- im
- jump
- launch
- listed
- minimum
- native
- noted
- originally
- planned
- pm
- ray
- sets
- suddenly
- supreme
- survey
- tech
- trees
- update
- user
- writer
- yellow
- younger
- ancient
- attacks
- charges
- combined
- communication
- connected
- contains
- download
- ending
- exercise
- express
- flow
- formed
- girlfriend
- hero
- illegal
- increasing
- joke
- loan
- methods
- officials
- people's
- performed
- planet
- relationships
- restaurant
- scotland
- selected
- shared
- shopping
- soft
- stuck
- sugar
- suggested
- supported
- surprised
- taught
- transport
- weren't
- accepted
- adding
- affairs
- allows
- appeal
- applied
- appropriate
- artists
- boston
- ca
- confirmed
- device
- drama
- entry
- era
- factor
- feed
- golden
- grant
- grown
- heads
- hoping
- keeps
- lawyer
- legs
- lying
- measures
- mistake
- ms
- muslim
- organizations
- platform
- pool
- pulled
- regarding
- relations
- requires
- route
- saved
- schedule
- scientific
- shoes
- smoke
- squad
- teach
- testing
- tests
- values
- walked
- williams
- ya
- abuse
- angry
- businesses
- candidate
- comfortable
- concern
- developing
- discuss
- elections
- emotional
- et
- everywhere
- facilities
- falling
- fox
- guns
- hole
- holiday
- interests
- internal
- ireland
- italian
- italy
- jersey
- laugh
- leg
- letters
- liberal
- listening
- ll
- loves
- lunch
- max
- milk
- pack
- payment
- perform
- recorded
- relatively
- sector
- sharing
- snow
- storm
- streets
- strike
- studio
- sub
- weak
- youtube
- 3rd
- actor
- advance
- apartment
- asia
- chain
- chapter
- committed
- confidence
- cook
- cute
- equal
- fake
- finance
- focused
- hits
- identity
- journey
- kitchen
- korea
- leads
- maintain
- measure
- mm
- numerous
- owners
- posts
- properties
- quiet
- revealed
- specifically
- split
- task
- taxes
- taylor
- twenty
- urban
- acts
- affected
- aircraft
- applications
- approved
- approximately
- argument
- arrested
- claimed
- conflict
- considering
- corporate
- debate
- determined
- distribution
- documents
- escape
- extended
- factors
- faster
- fault
- fill
- films
- flowers
- friendly
- ladies
- lay
- lights
- millions
- mixed
- phase
- properly
- pure
- reduced
- requirements
- residents
- revenue
- sam
- sat
- secure
- smile
- strange
- talent
- temperature
- thousand
- tony
- troops
- truck
- votes
- ah
- authorities
- basically
- besides
- bird
- blame
- bob
- bowl
- causes
- chicken
- collected
- context
- coverage
- determine
- display
- dying
- elected
- examples
- experienced
- falls
- false
- fired
- forgot
- funding
- identified
- iii
- incredible
- inspired
- launched
- ma
- meat
- ministry
- mode
- neck
- noticed
- novel
- obvious
- passing
- positions
- remaining
- scored
- shirt
- shots
- slowly
- stadium
- stores
- surgery
- trading
- tuesday
- vision
- whenever
- worried
- zero
- alex
- allowing
- begins
- champion
- charged
- cream
- crisis
- daniel
- delivered
- editor
- estimated
- eu
- giant
- iran
- jail
- jim
- kingdom
- literature
- mayor
- minor
- moments
- opposite
- orange
- ourselves
- pages
- remained
- selection
- serving
- signal
- stream
- struggle
- suicide
- talked
- theme
- thursday
- tiny
- typically
- un
- unfortunately
- usual
- vehicles
- virginia
- voted
- voting
- walls
- wave
- alcohol
- assembly
- breakfast
- bright
- brings
- capable
- carrying
- chosen
- combination
- conservative
- customer
- cutting
- desire
- destroyed
- draft
- drunk
- essential
- fail
- familiar
- finds
- granted
- guilty
- humans
- hundreds
- id
- improved
- jewish
- largely
- laughing
- markets
- medium
- ohio
- opportunities
- papers
- perfectly
- recommend
- referred
- relevant
- seek
- sending
- solo
- spoke
- stands
- talks
- ticket
- unable
- upset
- wing
- world's
- answers
- birds
- bomb
- creative
- cycle
- dealing
- directed
- don
- educational
- entertainment
- extreme
- facility
- fields
- goods
- hang
- holds
- info
- mainly
- maximum
- newspaper
- offering
- painting
- republic
- reserve
- returns
- row
- salt
- scared
- scottish
- shares
- statistics
- switch
- territory
- threat
- tickets
- wales
- adults
- affect
- appointed
- armed
- aside
- assistance
- bell
- blow
- bond
- boyfriend
- careful
- circumstances
- communications
- concerns
- controlled
- corporation
- cry
- danger
- deals
- delivery
- deserve
- devices
- dollar
- dreams
- empty
- enjoyed
- explained
- faces
- folks
- fucked
- gender
- instance
- kim
- kinda
- matches
- mile
- motion
- moves
- nick
- pacific
- prize
- realized
- reasonable
- receiving
- register
- resolution
- rural
- ryan
- saving
- sees
- singing
- spain
- tools
- typical
- universe
- warning
- wars
- wednesday
- admit
- attitude
- branch
- brazil
- conducted
- decades
- dedicated
- definition
- drawing
- favor
- flag
- frame
- guest
- ha
- heaven
- independence
- institutions
- it'll
- jackson
- kiss
- load
- plot
- possibility
- random
- recovery
- rent
- replace
- represent
- reviews
- scenes
- seeking
- senator
- sentence
- teeth
- tips
- trained
- understood
- academic
- academy
- accurate
- achieve
- adam
- afford
- andrew
- assume
- bbc
- bottle
- bunch
- category
- chat
- cheese
- chemical
- clinton
- competitive
- detail
- diet
- em
- favourite
- fruit
- harder
- he'd
- index
- item
- lane
- mess
- navy
- normally
- occurred
- opposition
- parent
- permanent
- personally
- pleasure
- prefer
- programme
- representative
- scheme
- shift
- stood
- storage
- tank
- tend
- tight
- transportation
- ultimately
- unlike
- weekly
- yard
- anybody
- assets
- basketball
- button
- candidates
- combat
- constitution
- consumer
- counter
- creation
- crown
- crying
- dc
- defined
- depending
- depression
- describe
- drivers
- el
- employment
- exclusive
- excuse
- expert
- frequently
- golf
- grace
- hopefully
- identify
- importance
- kevin
- laid
- latter
- manufacturing
- mining
- object
- partners
- pattern
- performing
- personnel
- perspective
- pregnant
- premier
- promote
- q
- revolution
- rooms
- severe
- sleeping
- suppose
- tool
- tournament
- turkey
- ve
- victim
- victims
- 4th
- agents
- amazon
- arrest
- attend
- ban
- brilliant
- carbon
- catholic
- chose
- circle
- concert
- crash
- declared
- deliver
- depth
- deputy
- dirty
- doctors
- earned
- electronic
- error
- existence
- experiences
- expression
- factory
- headed
- interior
- joy
- jr
- legislation
- maintenance
- manner
- mate
- matt
- nearby
- noise
- origin
- pakistan
- panel
- personality
- plate
- practices
- prepare
- relief
- replaced
- resistance
- retail
- rice
- roads
- roof
- shame
- ships
- somewhat
- staying
- stronger
- surely
- tip
- updated
- writers
- absolute
- advertising
- agencies
- baseball
- bathroom
- bible
- cable
- calm
- championship
- checked
- client
- constant
- da
- dates
- degrees
- democrats
- doors
- driven
- dumb
- empire
- exciting
- expansion
- he'll
- heavily
- hide
- incident
- irish
- linked
- manage
- messages
- michigan
- multi
- nfl
- politicians
- quit
- refused
- reporting
- sight
- significantly
- sing
- soviet
- weapon
- wet
- widely
- worldwide
- ages
- anniversary
- attractive
- bike
- broad
- burn
- cake
- causing
- closely
- constantly
- contest
- deaths
- depends
- drawn
- e.g
- fees
- francisco
- haha
- hardly
- hat
- height
- hidden
- hong
- invited
- letting
- loud
- manchester
- marine
- motor
- officially
- pc
- peak
- portion
- pounds
- princess
- protein
- puts
- raw
- reform
- regions
- represented
- respond
- retirement
- sample
- seats
- secondary
- solar
- somehow
- stayed
- suffering
- sydney
- today's
- tries
- ultimate
- unknown
- wilson
- wondering
- attached
- attacked
- automatically
- balls
- battery
- bills
- blind
- breath
- brief
- carolina
- chest
- conduct
- debut
- decade
- destroy
- differences
- edward
- engaged
- experts
- expressed
- external
- fantasy
- ft
- grab
- hollywood
- i.e
- immediate
- introduction
- joseph
- license
- paint
- pilot
- pink
- presidential
- principal
- recognize
- recognized
- registered
- regularly
- representatives
- rising
- seasons
- shipping
- singer
- smoking
- steam
- suffered
- survive
- tall
- thats
- theatre
- therapy
- witness
- adopted
- aim
- campus
- cap
- chances
- childhood
- clinical
- clubs
- comedy
- commander
- comparison
- covers
- dan
- defeat
- defence
- democracy
- detailed
- entitled
- exact
- exposed
- fed
- fee
- injured
- jan
- jordan
- kinds
- lets
- loans
- lock
- musical
- nose
- objects
- opposed
- organized
- plastic
- protected
- purposes
- quote
- recording
- semi
- statements
- suspect
- swear
- techniques
- tie
- tim
- trend
- valuable
- wealth
- wise
- yards
- aged
- approval
- aspects
- attempts
- bread
- burning
- champions
- contain
- convention
- dancing
- document
- eggs
- employee
- en
- engineer
- equivalent
- facing
- fairly
- fingers
- ford
- founded
- functions
- gang
- graduate
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