English words 3,001–5,000: the “Fluent reader” band
Words ranked 3,001–5,000 by frequency make up Beeblio's "Fluent reader" band — the vocabulary layer that separates someone who can get the gist from someone who reads with genuine ease. You already know the everyday staples; this band adds the words that carry nuance: terms for emotions, relationships, abstract ideas, and the texture of argument. Think words like reluctant, dispute, venture, or dignity — not rare, but not basic either.
Together, the top 5,000 words cover the vast majority of vocabulary you meet in novels, quality journalism, and workplace writing. Closing the gap between the 1,500-word core (roughly 80% of everyday text) and the 5,000-word fluent level is where reading stops feeling like decoding and starts feeling like reading. Beeblio colour-codes every word by its frequency band so you can see exactly which words sit in this range and target them deliberately.
On this page you can explore the full 3,001–5,000 list, read sample texts filtered to that band, and track which words you've already met. Ranks are drawn from the wordfreq corpus, so they reflect real-world usage across books, news, and the web.
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
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- rolling
- shortly
- situations
- strongly
- tears
- technique
- thin
- tied
- z
- 3d
- accused
- adventure
- argue
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- awful
- bedroom
- belief
- bound
- breaks
- carefully
- cats
- ceo
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- cloud
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- contrast
- courses
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- donald
- drew
- egg
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- extension
- files
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- gear
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- hills
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- infrastructure
- jason
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- machines
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- offensive
- pa
- package
- pointed
- poverty
- processes
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- railway
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- sensitive
- server
- shock
- silence
- soldier
- superior
- supporters
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- threw
- tons
- transition
- violent
- voters
- wash
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- actress
- administrative
- alan
- alongside
- angel
- anxiety
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- bars
- bonus
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- charity
- clients
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- covering
- curious
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- discovery
- discussed
- duke
- egypt
- encourage
- enforcement
- featuring
- finals
- flash
- formal
- formula
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- governments
- gray
- gross
- horses
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- informed
- innocent
- jeff
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- luke
- mac
- math
- minds
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- mystery
- networks
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- passes
- penalty
- pet
- phones
- photography
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- protest
- publication
- rating
- refer
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- select
- silent
- spoken
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- suffer
- temple
- tracks
- trail
- uncle
- unusual
- waters
- woods
- yo
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- assault
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- badly
- bath
- captured
- chase
- components
- concrete
- dave
- deeply
- expectations
- explanation
- exposure
- featured
- fiction
- guarantee
- happiness
- harris
- hearts
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- ideal
- illinois
- injuries
- islamic
- jimmy
- kelly
- legend
- lieutenant
- mini
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- 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
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- expecting
- explains
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- ghost
- guests
- handed
- hockey
- houston
- https
- hunting
- industries
- islam
- jane
- judges
- kit
- lab
- languages
- maps
- min
- morgan
- moscow
- na
- nervous
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- op
- ordinary
- participate
- philadelphia
- prayer
- principles
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- rarely
- references
- sexy
- skill
- soil
- solve
- stomach
- struck
- studying
- suck
- supports
- trash
- ugly
- vegas
- virus
- walker
- whoever
- amounts
- anthony
- arthur
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- banned
- boost
- bureau
- colonel
- comfort
- controls
- cousin
- crack
- deck
- demands
- dies
- dragon
- dramatic
- dust
- dutch
- engineers
- evolution
- foods
- hired
- illness
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- 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
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- abandoned
- acquired
- actors
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- alliance
- annoying
- ap
- bid
- bro
- buddy
- buried
- butter
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- columbia
- conclusion
- confirm
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- contracts
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- crystal
- dean
- decent
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- delay
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- desert
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- enemies
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- forth
- gods
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- hire
- hop
- hopes
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- installed
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- landing
- layer
- managing
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- nah
- nowhere
- nurse
- obtain
- organic
- ownership
- participants
- pennsylvania
- poetry
- pot
- pray
- printed
- recall
- rugby
- sake
- sheet
- signing
- smooth
- spiritual
- stops
- string
- sudden
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- syria
- throwing
- thrown
- vacation
- abroad
- arab
- assigned
- associate
- assumed
- atlantic
- bench
- bother
- broadcast
- bye
- cambridge
- citizen
- cleaning
- compete
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- 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
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- 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
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- arguments
- aug
- billy
- boom
- boots
- brave
- claiming
- column
- commit
- compensation
- composition
- computers
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- constitutional
- crossing
- d.c
- defending
- density
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- difficulty
- dropping
- drops
- elementary
- ethnic
- expenses
- fleet
- foster
- fuckin
- fundamental
- gen
- genius
- greatly
- guidance
- hospitals
- infection
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- 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
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- punch
- purple
- railroad
- registration
- releases
- rick
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- someone's
- submitted
- sufficient
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- suspended
- technologies
- tissue
- trailer
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- trials
- ukraine
- underground
- versus
- virtual
- walks
- wounded
- ali
- amongst
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- 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
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- mouse
- oscar
- packed
- piano
- praise
- presentation
- psychology
- relation
- restrictions
- rocket
- ruin
- saudi
- sean
- sec
- secrets
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- stability
- steady
- stones
- symbol
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- treaty
- triple
- unlikely
- updates
- vietnam
- viewed
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- bat
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- cape
- collective
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- cooperation
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- darkness
- deeper
- devil
- edit
- enable
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- failing
- finishing
- fortune
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- goodbye
- graham
- hardware
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- intellectual
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- shield
- similarly
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- dialogue
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- distinct
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- existed
- fifty
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- fool
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- intelligent
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- rely
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- crucial
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- dependent
- discussions
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- edinburgh
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- printing
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- pump
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- satisfied
- seeds
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- spaces
- spare
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- stranger
- submit
- surprising
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- thompson
- threats
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- volunteer
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- acceptable
- allies
- attempting
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- counting
- credits
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- earnings
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- everyone's
- executed
- firing
- fits
- frequent
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- gathered
- hilarious
- huh
- ignored
- improvements
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- isis
- margin
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- maryland
- mechanism
- moderate
- murray
- oklahoma
- opera
- overcome
- parallel
- passage
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- psychological
- publications
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- sized
- stroke
- stunning
- tanks
- tokyo
- topics
- trains
- traveling
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- tune
- utility
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- wherever
- ©
- acquisition
- addressed
- alabama
- alice
- angels
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- announce
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- bold
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- breathe
- cameron
- choosing
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- classified
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- encounter
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- federation
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- instrument
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- lover
- mainstream
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- missouri
- mounted
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- pursue
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- maintaining
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- 8th
- abc
- abortion
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- albert
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- carl
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- conversion
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- grandfather
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- isolated
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- modified
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- noble
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- poland
- popularity
- professionals
- pussy
- reactions
- relate
- robot
- sacred
- securities
- shoe
- speakers
- springs
- spy
- steven
- suggestions
- supplied
- susan
- suspension
- terrorism
- terry
- toxic
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- tunnel
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- upgrade
- warrant
- wider
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- aaron
- actively
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- applies
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- assuming
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- barcelona
- blessed
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- burden
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- casual
- certified
- charter
- chef
- city's
- civilian
- coalition
- cock
- complain
- complaints
- controversial
- denver
- describing
- differently
- directions
- discipline
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- 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
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- 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
Other bands
First words (300) · Getting by (800) · Everyday (1,500) · Confident (3,000) · Advanced (8,000) · Near-native (12,000)
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Graded English readings for the Fluent reader band — every text stays inside these words plus a few new ones.
Questions
What kinds of words are in the 3,001–5,000 band?
These are words that are common enough to appear regularly in books and newspapers but not so frequent that they show up in everyday conversation every day. You'll find more precise emotion words, formal verbs, and abstract nouns here — the vocabulary that gives writing its texture and specificity.
How do I use this band to improve my reading fluency in English?
Read texts that Beeblio has pinned to this band: most of the words will be familiar, but the highlighted 3,001–5,000 words give you focused, in-context practice. Encountering a word several times in real sentences is one of the most effective ways to move it into your active vocabulary.
How are the word ranks determined?
Ranks come from the wordfreq corpus, a large dataset compiled from books, news articles, subtitles, and web text. A word's rank reflects how often it appears across all those sources, so rank 3,001 is genuinely the 3,001st most common word in real English use.