English words 3,001–5,000: the “Fluent reader” band
2,000 English words ranked 3,001–5,000 by frequency — the “Fluent reader” band. A learner who knows them can read texts pinned to this band with about 95% of the words already familiar.
- greek
- hanging
- inner
- islands
- le
- lift
- marked
- memories
- miller
- monthly
- mountains
- neighborhood
- operate
- outstanding
- permission
- porn
- racing
- recommended
- regulations
- reply
- republicans
- rid
- roman
- scientists
- shoulder
- shower
- solutions
- sons
- stations
- stephen
- tower
- tradition
- visited
- visual
- wheel
- zealand
- achieved
- admitted
- appointment
- authors
- barely
- bc
- bush
- cabinet
- celebrate
- challenges
- chocolate
- coal
- colour
- contemporary
- criticism
- davis
- dna
- effectively
- eric
- extensive
- faced
- filed
- formation
- fought
- gained
- gallery
- highway
- historic
- hunt
- improvement
- inch
- initially
- junior
- jury
- kong
- korean
- marks
- monster
- obtained
- olympic
- philosophy
- pride
- promised
- repeat
- returning
- riding
- rough
- santa
- settlement
- smell
- sought
- speaker
- studied
- suggests
- surrounding
- tone
- topic
- toronto
- universal
- vast
- visitors
- wanting
- auto
- consistent
- continuing
- earn
- exists
- finger
- grey
- guitar
- heading
- howard
- ignore
- involving
- latin
- lewis
- meal
- meanwhile
- meetings
- naturally
- necessarily
- offices
- pants
- partnership
- payments
- percentage
- practical
- primarily
- proved
- rape
- regardless
- relative
- represents
- rescue
- resulting
- rush
- sarah
- sessions
- sharp
- simon
- soccer
- stable
- structures
- supplies
- symptoms
- temporary
- tested
- trick
- attended
- audio
- bone
- brian
- bullshit
- chamber
- chart
- children's
- circuit
- clothing
- complicated
- confused
- consequences
- defend
- divided
- elizabeth
- everyday
- extent
- fishing
- format
- gap
- gate
- gotten
- harm
- healthcare
- household
- immigration
- impressive
- jews
- joining
- killer
- lesson
- limits
- loving
- ltd
- managers
- membership
- miami
- mirror
- mount
- nights
- occur
- parking
- proposal
- province
- purchased
- recognition
- reputation
- rolling
- shortly
- situations
- strongly
- tears
- technique
- thin
- tied
- z
- 3d
- accused
- adventure
- argue
- assessment
- atmosphere
- awful
- bedroom
- belief
- bound
- breaks
- carefully
- cats
- ceo
- choices
- closing
- cloud
- colorado
- colors
- contrast
- courses
- courts
- donald
- drew
- egg
- element
- elsewhere
- establish
- extension
- files
- founder
- gear
- georgia
- hills
- hip
- hitting
- increases
- infrastructure
- jason
- locations
- loose
- machines
- men's
- moral
- offensive
- pa
- package
- pointed
- poverty
- processes
- processing
- qualified
- railway
- reaching
- ridiculous
- sensitive
- server
- shock
- silence
- soldier
- superior
- supporters
- thick
- threw
- tons
- transition
- violent
- voters
- wash
- acid
- actress
- administrative
- alan
- alongside
- angel
- anxiety
- babies
- bars
- bonus
- castle
- charity
- clients
- compare
- contained
- cooking
- covering
- curious
- directors
- discovery
- discussed
- duke
- egypt
- encourage
- enforcement
- featuring
- finals
- flash
- formal
- formula
- fort
- governments
- gray
- gross
- horses
- hungry
- informed
- innocent
- jeff
- losses
- luke
- mac
- math
- minds
- mistakes
- mystery
- networks
- olympics
- palace
- passes
- penalty
- pet
- phones
- photography
- producing
- protest
- publication
- rating
- refer
- respectively
- rome
- scheduled
- select
- silent
- spoken
- successfully
- suffer
- temple
- tracks
- trail
- uncle
- unusual
- waters
- woods
- yo
- arrival
- asks
- assault
- awareness
- badly
- bath
- captured
- chase
- components
- concrete
- dave
- deeply
- expectations
- explanation
- exposure
- featured
- fiction
- guarantee
- happiness
- harris
- hearts
- horrible
- ideal
- illinois
- injuries
- islamic
- jimmy
- kelly
- legend
- lieutenant
- mini
- mood
- muscle
- muslims
- p.m
- passion
- picking
- pleased
- procedure
- producer
- pushing
- rank
- replacement
- retired
- roles
- sand
- savings
- settled
- shadow
- singles
- tag
- tape
- thread
- victoria
- visiting
- wage
- we'd
- wings
- andy
- avenue
- bags
- beating
- believes
- blocks
- boring
- charlie
- checking
- clock
- commissioner
- commitment
- confident
- containing
- copies
- crimes
- custom
- denied
- desk
- drinks
- ear
- electricity
- episodes
- farmers
- fbi
- grounds
- gym
- helpful
- horror
- iphone
- iraq
- label
- liverpool
- locked
- naked
- ny
- opens
- output
- persons
- pitch
- pizza
- plain
- pushed
- raising
- rear
- reveal
- romantic
- scores
- sisters
- speaks
- stages
- strategic
- swimming
- welfare
- winners
- wire
- worker
- 5th
- afterwards
- alright
- android
- anger
- architecture
- assist
- attempted
- behalf
- belt
- capture
- centers
- ceremony
- comic
- cops
- cuts
- dallas
- designer
- diamond
- disappointed
- dressed
- economics
- efficient
- electrical
- employed
- enjoying
- entering
- essentially
- establishment
- expecting
- explains
- flower
- ghost
- guests
- handed
- hockey
- houston
- https
- hunting
- industries
- islam
- jane
- judges
- kit
- lab
- languages
- maps
- min
- morgan
- moscow
- na
- nervous
- newly
- odd
- op
- ordinary
- participate
- philadelphia
- prayer
- principles
- racist
- rarely
- references
- sexy
- skill
- soil
- solve
- stomach
- struck
- studying
- suck
- supports
- trash
- ugly
- vegas
- virus
- walker
- whoever
- amounts
- anthony
- arthur
- aspect
- banned
- boost
- bureau
- colonel
- comfort
- controls
- cousin
- crack
- deck
- demands
- dies
- dragon
- dramatic
- dust
- dutch
- engineers
- evolution
- foods
- hired
- illness
- inspiration
- institution
- kings
- knife
- lately
- lowest
- memorial
- mexican
- minority
- mum
- opinions
- patterns
- presents
- priority
- promotion
- rail
- readers
- remote
- repair
- root
- saint
- steal
- stolen
- telephone
- tho
- titles
- trans
- ups
- vol
- whereas
- abandoned
- acquired
- actors
- alexander
- alliance
- annoying
- ap
- bid
- bro
- buddy
- buried
- butter
- cares
- columbia
- conclusion
- confirm
- congratulations
- contracts
- convinced
- crap
- crystal
- dean
- decent
- decline
- delay
- describes
- desert
- downtown
- elite
- enemies
- forgotten
- forth
- gods
- hadn't
- hire
- hop
- hopes
- insane
- installed
- israeli
- landing
- layer
- managing
- marry
- nah
- nowhere
- nurse
- obtain
- organic
- ownership
- participants
- pennsylvania
- poetry
- pot
- pray
- printed
- recall
- rugby
- sake
- sheet
- signing
- smooth
- spiritual
- stops
- string
- sudden
- sweden
- syria
- throwing
- thrown
- vacation
- abroad
- arab
- assigned
- associate
- assumed
- atlantic
- bench
- bother
- broadcast
- bye
- cambridge
- citizen
- cleaning
- compete
- consists
- consumers
- contributed
- cricket
- critics
- damaged
- disaster
- discover
- disney
- entrance
- equally
- fallen
- figured
- fitness
- francis
- friendship
- gary
- handling
- idiot
- intense
- keys
- lawyers
- lifetime
- liquid
- makeup
- medal
- mortgage
- narrative
- narrow
- nba
- observed
- occasionally
- one's
- pan
- physics
- posting
- potentially
- reduction
- reflect
- refuse
- researchers
- resource
- roger
- ross
- sciences
- seattle
- serves
- shell
- silly
- subsequent
- they'd
- towns
- translation
- visible
- yep
- adds
- allen
- amendment
- angle
- arizona
- arrive
- belong
- berlin
- bishop
- channels
- clark
- commonly
- connect
- defensive
- designs
- efficiency
- enterprise
- experiment
- feb
- females
- findings
- firms
- forum
- gifts
- grass
- hence
- increasingly
- incredibly
- iv
- jay
- journalist
- kicked
- lessons
- lists
- maintained
- mill
- mo
- occasion
- oxford
- pace
- passenger
- pen
- pope
- possession
- pp
- races
- rapid
- regulation
- resident
- rocks
- shaped
- sixth
- spin
- styles
- subjects
- sucks
- suitable
- thirty
- valid
- vital
- whilst
- year's
- agriculture
- alleged
- anna
- atlanta
- bands
- christians
- collect
- commerce
- cop
- creek
- currency
- emotions
- exhibition
- fraud
- funeral
- genuine
- god's
- gordon
- honey
- honour
- hook
- hunter
- immigrants
- improving
- instructions
- introduce
- kansas
- km
- lands
- legacy
- log
- matthew
- merely
- monitor
- mother's
- nov
- patrick
- phil
- prisoners
- programming
- publishing
- ratio
- regret
- rejected
- remind
- resort
- resulted
- reverse
- routine
- scary
- seed
- settle
- sin
- spell
- summary
- survival
- sword
- tongue
- ward
- waves
- wayne
- achievement
- anderson
- argued
- asleep
- austin
- automatic
- begun
- behaviour
- cd
- cents
- coat
- comprehensive
- consent
- daddy
- destruction
- diego
- diseases
- divorce
- doc
- drove
- ears
- engage
- extraordinary
- fate
- frequency
- gaming
- gene
- glory
- headquarters
- heritage
- initiative
- interviews
- jean
- juice
- landscape
- logic
- meets
- melbourne
- microsoft
- objective
- organisation
- privacy
- procedures
- profits
- reducing
- regard
- representing
- residence
- roughly
- salary
- scoring
- script
- searching
- sections
- strip
- surrounded
- threatened
- transferred
- tube
- universities
- walter
- wisconsin
- would've
- writes
- a.m
- ambassador
- ann
- apps
- awarded
- banking
- breast
- cant
- carter
- chelsea
- chemistry
- concluded
- consumption
- corruption
- cotton
- crossed
- detroit
- discount
- dozen
- engines
- epic
- exception
- exit
- expand
- fancy
- gorgeous
- grateful
- heroes
- holes
- impression
- inches
- indicate
- input
- johnny
- josh
- knock
- leather
- lips
- luxury
- lyrics
- manufacturers
- masters
- movements
- oct
- operated
- ought
- outcome
- painted
- poll
- preferred
- pulling
- ranked
- referring
- removal
- rep
- reporter
- rio
- risks
- rob
- screaming
- sept
- sequence
- singapore
- stretch
- tear
- tennis
- terrorist
- theater
- ties
- twelve
- versions
- virgin
- voices
- wishes
- wolf
- absence
- agricultural
- asshole
- ate
- athletes
- bears
- blues
- boxes
- bruce
- bull
- cameras
- commonwealth
- contribute
- contribution
- contributions
- couples
- delicious
- deny
- deserves
- ease
- extend
- fame
- flood
- generated
- genetic
- glasses
- impressed
- indicated
- instant
- investors
- involves
- kate
- kills
- liberty
- man's
- maria
- ministers
- monitoring
- occurs
- passengers
- photographs
- principle
- producers
- progressive
- punishment
- rally
- rapidly
- reader
- representation
- restaurants
- reveals
- roots
- samples
- shops
- sum
- swing
- tail
- texts
- twin
- upcoming
- veterans
- alert
- arena
- arguments
- aug
- billy
- boom
- boots
- brave
- claiming
- column
- commit
- compensation
- composition
- computers
- conservation
- constitutional
- crossing
- d.c
- defending
- density
- di
- difficulty
- dropping
- drops
- elementary
- ethnic
- expenses
- fleet
- foster
- fuckin
- fundamental
- gen
- genius
- greatly
- guidance
- hospitals
- infection
- intention
- iowa
- jokes
- knee
- mechanical
- nigeria
- parks
- participation
- periods
- precious
- pregnancy
- premium
- preparing
- pretend
- priest
- prominent
- proven
- radical
- remembered
- requested
- residential
- reward
- rings
- robin
- russell
- satellite
- shake
- shore
- spots
- stats
- struggling
- substantial
- teen
- temperatures
- transmission
- trap
- uniform
- wildlife
- wooden
- ads
- aggressive
- anne
- answered
- apparent
- bang
- blast
- bones
- brands
- centuries
- communist
- complaint
- component
- connections
- courage
- cure
- del
- desperate
- diversity
- duties
- encouraged
- eve
- faculty
- feedback
- fighter
- frozen
- guards
- hiding
- humanity
- ian
- il
- innovation
- instruments
- invest
- jacket
- justin
- legislative
- listing
- manual
- mothers
- murdered
- nursing
- occupied
- ongoing
- operator
- painful
- pound
- preparation
- punch
- purple
- railroad
- registration
- releases
- rick
- romance
- someone's
- submitted
- sufficient
- survived
- suspended
- technologies
- tissue
- trailer
- trends
- trials
- ukraine
- underground
- versus
- virtual
- walks
- wounded
- ali
- amongst
- announcement
- arranged
- arsenal
- attending
- attracted
- biological
- bite
- blocked
- boards
- burned
- categories
- checks
- chip
- company's
- concerning
- dare
- database
- define
- discrimination
- disorder
- distributed
- districts
- documentary
- domain
- dynamic
- edited
- engagement
- explore
- favour
- fewer
- footage
- giants
- grave
- hamilton
- implementation
- indiana
- investigate
- jazz
- jon
- jonathan
- laboratory
- lawrence
- lincoln
- literary
- mask
- massachusetts
- midnight
- minnesota
- mouse
- oscar
- packed
- piano
- praise
- presentation
- psychology
- relation
- restrictions
- rocket
- ruin
- saudi
- sean
- sec
- secrets
- slave
- stability
- steady
- stones
- symbol
- terminal
- toilet
- treaty
- triple
- unlikely
- updates
- vietnam
- viewed
- 6th
- affair
- agenda
- bat
- bow
- calendar
- cape
- collective
- conversations
- cooperation
- craft
- darkness
- deeper
- devil
- edit
- enable
- equity
- estimates
- failing
- finishing
- fortune
- gates
- goodbye
- graham
- hardware
- hillary
- hurts
- intellectual
- invite
- involvement
- kentucky
- madrid
- mi
- nuts
- oregon
- partly
- petition
- phrase
- physically
- protecting
- racial
- rated
- regime
- rivers
- rounds
- ruled
- sa
- sauce
- seal
- separated
- shield
- similarly
- slide
- stem
- summit
- talented
- throat
- tiger
- touched
- toy
- visits
- warriors
- wisdom
- accounting
- alien
- attacking
- awkward
- beast
- beef
- candy
- carrier
- celebration
- celebrity
- certificate
- cited
- clay
- coaching
- colleagues
- constructed
- dated
- dec
- default
- delhi
- derived
- dialogue
- disabled
- distinct
- drag
- educated
- eligible
- estimate
- execution
- existed
- fifty
- followers
- fool
- framework
- franchise
- funded
- furniture
- generations
- guaranteed
- integrated
- intelligent
- interaction
- jet
- journalists
- lifestyle
- lighting
- lisa
- loop
- mall
- mp
- overseas
- performances
- philippines
- polish
- recommendations
- recover
- regarded
- relax
- reliable
- rely
- remarkable
- responses
- ruling
- sacrifice
- se
- sole
- stopping
- strategies
- succeed
- tables
- tale
- targets
- timing
- ton
- volunteers
- witnesses
- wore
- worship
- worthy
- acted
- alarm
- bass
- bloody
- breathing
- butt
- characteristics
- cnn
- collaboration
- con
- consideration
- counts
- creates
- crucial
- daughters
- dependent
- discussions
- drives
- dual
- edinburgh
- equipped
- expanded
- experimental
- feeding
- filter
- galaxy
- globe
- grades
- greece
- gulf
- highlights
- hoped
- intent
- involve
- judgment
- kennedy
- knight
- larry
- las
- lmao
- logo
- malaysia
- mature
- moore
- nazi
- netherlands
- odds
- peaceful
- philip
- photographer
- pin
- prevention
- printing
- promoting
- publicly
- pump
- repeated
- replied
- requests
- revenge
- satisfied
- seeds
- signals
- slip
- spaces
- spare
- specialist
- stocks
- stranger
- submit
- surprising
- tap
- thompson
- threats
- tourism
- turkish
- volunteer
- 7th
- acceptable
- allies
- attempting
- auction
- bonds
- challenging
- chaos
- churches
- cleveland
- cm
- composed
- concentration
- copper
- corp
- corps
- counting
- credits
- dawn
- dispute
- earnings
- editing
- everyone's
- executed
- firing
- fits
- frequent
- gardens
- gathered
- hilarious
- huh
- ignored
- improvements
- investments
- isis
- margin
- mars
- maryland
- mechanism
- moderate
- murray
- oklahoma
- opera
- overcome
- parallel
- passage
- pit
- psychological
- publications
- quest
- radiation
- shocked
- sized
- stroke
- stunning
- tanks
- tokyo
- topics
- trains
- traveling
- treating
- tune
- utility
- vessel
- weed
- wherever
- ©
- acquisition
- addressed
- alabama
- alice
- angels
- anime
- announce
- autumn
- backed
- barry
- bold
- borders
- breathe
- cameron
- choosing
- classical
- classified
- clip
- coaches
- coins
- concepts
- conspiracy
- controversy
- convince
- cooper
- disappeared
- eh
- encounter
- equality
- exam
- examination
- fails
- father's
- federation
- fi
- fiscal
- guardian
- hd
- homeless
- instrument
- intervention
- jerry
- lover
- mainstream
- menu
- missouri
- mounted
- mutual
- nope
- occasions
- offense
- oral
- panic
- pays
- peoples
- pursue
- realise
- refugees
- removing
- requirement
- responded
- rip
- ruined
- scope
- segment
- spectrum
- stays
- ted
- terror
- uh
- va
- venture
- virtually
- waited
- warren
- worn
- yea
- ac
- accompanied
- adams
- aids
- aimed
- alpha
- approaches
- arguing
- arrangement
- beliefs
- boats
- boundaries
- brick
- brooklyn
- colleges
- considerable
- conventional
- danny
- des
- designated
- dvd
- emperor
- employers
- enormous
- errors
- focusing
- forgive
- gains
- garage
- gathering
- guidelines
- handled
- hosted
- indians
- indonesia
- inquiry
- inspector
- jumped
- khan
- li
- lion
- loaded
- lonely
- maintaining
- measured
- mercy
- nevertheless
- newspapers
- outer
- oxygen
- pipe
- pissed
- poem
- powder
- powered
- promises
- quotes
- racism
- ratings
- reads
- recovered
- refers
- roy
- rude
- screw
- seventh
- shelter
- signature
- sooner
- spider
- stewart
- strikes
- suggesting
- suits
- toys
- tracking
- tribute
- trigger
- vary
- venue
- wages
- wells
- wheels
- ye
- 😂
- 8th
- abc
- abortion
- accuracy
- albert
- applying
- artificial
- belongs
- beneath
- bitcoin
- bullet
- burns
- carl
- celebrated
- consistently
- conversion
- copyright
- counties
- democrat
- deposit
- destination
- dirt
- diverse
- divine
- emails
- er
- exclusively
- export
- fastest
- formerly
- functional
- gather
- grandfather
- habit
- harvard
- indicates
- isolated
- jealous
- knocked
- landed
- laughed
- laura
- lazy
- mama
- marshall
- mitchell
- modified
- municipal
- naval
- neighbors
- nelson
- neutral
- noble
- oldest
- pat
- picks
- poland
- popularity
- professionals
- pussy
- reactions
- relate
- robot
- sacred
- securities
- shoe
- speakers
- springs
- spy
- steven
- suggestions
- supplied
- susan
- suspension
- terrorism
- terry
- toxic
- treasury
- tunnel
- unions
- upgrade
- warrant
- wider
- wound
- aaron
- actively
- afghanistan
- ai
- applies
- arrangements
- asset
- assuming
- backing
- baker
- barcelona
- blessed
- brazilian
- brush
- burden
- campbell
- carries
- casual
- certified
- charter
- chef
- city's
- civilian
- coalition
- cock
- complain
- complaints
- controversial
- denver
- describing
- differently
- directions
- discipline
- discussing
- disgusting
- dj
- dominant
- earning
- emma
- essay
- expense
- explaining
- furthermore
- graphic
- greg
- healing
- hiring
- hosts
- implemented
- instantly
- invasion
- jacob
- jumping
- laptop
- legendary
- leo
- maker
- margaret
- mario
- opponents
- outdoor
- palm
- parker
- photograph
- pole
- pub
- quarters
- queensland
- rangers
- ranks
- reception
- recipe
- regulatory
- reviewed
- rolls
- rubber
- secured
- serial
- settings
- shed
- snake
- sponsored
- stealing
- strict
- subsequently
- substance
- suggestion
- switzerland
- syndrome
- tasks
- trips
- ultra
- unexpected
- usage
- utah
- worlds
- accidentally
- affordable
- amateur
- appeals
- argentina
- baltimore
- batman
- bearing
- beats
- bin
- biology
- bobby
- briefly
- canal
- cancelled
- charlotte
- cheaper
- christopher
- climb
- com
- competing
- completion
- cruise
- custody
- delete
- demonstrated
- departure
- developers
- developments
- dig
- eagles
- employer
- evans
- explosion
- fever
- fluid
- folk
- generate
- gop
- handsome
- ho
- holidays
- hotels
- imagination
- integration
- integrity
- interpretation
- leaf
- legitimate
- lightning
- loads
- longest
- magical
- mills
- motivation
- nasty
- oliver
- outfit
- pension
- permit
- perry
- plates
- pleasant
- portrait
- productive
- reminds
- reserves
- ron
- safely
- shirts
- shorter
- slight
- socialist
- streaming
- sue
- targeted
- tension
- thailand
- theories
- touching
- transactions
- twist
- ugh
- unemployment
- unity
- useless
- viewers
- winds
- woke
- wtf
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