English words 301–800: the “Getting by” band
500 English words ranked 301–800 by frequency — the “Getting by” band. A learner who knows them can read texts pinned to this band with about 95% of the words already familiar.
- yes
- actually
- american
- later
- less
- line
- order
- party
- run
- says
- service
- 8
- country
- open
- season
- shit
- thank
- children
- everyone
- general
- they're
- trying
- united
- using
- area
- black
- d
- following
- law
- makes
- together
- war
- whole
- car
- face
- five
- kind
- maybe
- per
- president
- story
- working
- course
- games
- health
- hope
- important
- least
- means
- news
- within
- able
- book
- early
- friends
- i'll
- information
- local
- oh
- post
- t
- thanks
- video
- young
- ago
- others
- social
- talk
- 9
- court
- fact
- given
- guys
- half
- hand
- isn't
- level
- mind
- often
- single
- become
- body
- coming
- control
- death
- food
- guy
- hours
- office
- pay
- problem
- south
- true
- we're
- almost
- fuck
- history
- known
- large
- lost
- m
- research
- room
- several
- started
- taking
- university
- win
- wrong
- along
- anyone
- else
- girl
- john
- matter
- pretty
- remember
- air
- bit
- friend
- hit
- needs
- nice
- playing
- probably
- saying
- understand
- yeah
- york
- class
- close
- comes
- i'd
- idea
- international
- looks
- past
- possible
- wanted
- b
- cause
- due
- happy
- human
- members
- months
- move
- question
- r
- series
- wait
- woman
- ask
- community
- data
- late
- leave
- north
- saw
- special
- watch
- won't
- c
- either
- fucking
- future
- light
- low
- million
- morning
- police
- short
- stay
- taken
- age
- buy
- deal
- rather
- reason
- red
- report
- soon
- third
- turn
- whether
- among
- check
- development
- form
- further
- heart
- minutes
- myself
- services
- u.s
- yourself
- act
- although
- asked
- child
- fire
- fun
- living
- major
- media
- phone
- players
- art
- behind
- building
- easy
- gonna
- market
- near
- non
- plan
- political
- quite
- six
- talking
- west
- works
- according
- available
- e
- education
- final
- former
- front
- kids
- list
- ready
- sometimes
- son
- street
- wasn't
- bring
- college
- current
- example
- experience
- heard
- london
- meet
- program
- type
- baby
- chance
- father
- march
- process
- she's
- song
- study
- word
- across
- action
- clear
- gave
- gets
- himself
- month
- outside
- self
- students
- words
- board
- cost
- cut
- dr
- field
- held
- instead
- main
- moment
- mother
- road
- seems
- thinking
- town
- wants
- de
- department
- energy
- fight
- fine
- force
- hear
- issue
- played
- points
- price
- re
- rest
- results
- running
- shows
- space
- summer
- term
- wife
- 0
- america
- beautiful
- date
- goes
- killed
- land
- miss
- project
- sex
- shot
- site
- strong
- you'll
- account
- co
- especially
- eyes
- include
- june
- parents
- period
- position
- record
- similar
- total
- w
- above
- club
- common
- died
- film
- happened
- knew
- lead
- likely
- military
- perfect
- personal
- security
- share
- st
- tv
- what's
- won
- x
- april
- center
- county
- couple
- dead
- english
- happen
- hold
- industry
- inside
- issues
- online
- player
- private
- problems
- return
- rights
- sense
- star
- test
- view
- weeks
- break
- british
- companies
- event
- higher
- hour
- l
- member
- middle
- needed
- present
- result
- sorry
- takes
- training
- wish
- wouldn't
- answer
- boy
- design
- finally
- girls
- gold
- gone
- guess
- interest
- july
- king
- learn
- policy
- society
- added
- al
- alone
- average
- bank
- brought
- certain
- church
- east
- hands
- hot
- let's
- longer
- medical
- movie
- original
- park
- performance
- press
- received
- role
- sent
- themselves
- tried
- worked
- worth
- areas
- became
- bill
- books
- cool
- director
- exactly
- giving
- ground
- meeting
- n
- provide
- questions
- relationship
- september
- sound
- source
- usually
- value
- evidence
- follow
- lives
- official
- ok
- production
- rate
- reading
- round
- save
- stand
- stuff
- tax
- whatever
- amount
- blue
- countries
- david
- drive
- eat
- fall
- fast
- federal
- feeling
- felt
- green
- league
- management
- match
- model
- p
- picture
- size
- step
- trust
- you've
- central
- changes
- england
- forward
- groups
- hey
- key
- mom
- o
- page
- paid
- range
- review
- science
- trade
- uk
- upon
- various
- attention
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