Friday, April 21, 2006

Most Popular Words 2006

In 2003, I’ve collected the Google page count for over 27,000 words in an English dictionary. I’ve now done the same to update the database. Here is the current top 30 of the most-used words online:

1. a (25,070,000,000 pages)
2. the (24,190,000,000 pages)
3. to (24,040,000,000 pages)
4. in (23,650,000,000 pages)
5. of (23,360,000,000 pages)
6. and (21,970,000,000 pages)
7. for (21,970,000,000 pages)
8. by (19,330,000,000 pages)
9. home (19,200,000,000 pages)
10. all (19,060,000,000 pages)
11. this (18,190,000,000 pages)
12. is (17,650,000,000 pages)
13. about (17,050,000,000 pages)
14. site (16,420,000,000 pages)
15. with (15,980,000,000 pages)
16. at (15,530,000,000 pages)
17. more (15,410,000,000 pages)
18. your (15,360,000,000 pages)
19. us (14,810,000,000 pages)
20. you (14,750,000,000 pages)
21. contact (14,580,000,000 pages)
22. web (14,570,000,000 pages)
23. are (13,850,000,000 pages)
24. from (13,690,000,000 pages)
25. information (13,690,000,000 pages)
26. it (13,430,000,000 pages)
27. copyright (13,300,000,000 pages)
28. an (13,250,000,000 pages)
29. privacy (12,650,000,000 pages)
30. that (12,600,000,000 pages)

Following are the top gainers in the last 3 years. For example, 10,900 pages in 2003 included the word “furl” – meaning “to be or become rolled up” – whereas the same word returns 67,100,000 pages in 2006 (likely because of the web app appearing with the same name). Many other words in the list of top gainers are of foreign language, hinting perhaps at a faster growth of the foreign web (or a deeper crawl by Google).

Top Gainers

#	Word	Increase
1.	furl	x 6155
2.	soignee	x 1729
3.	pus	x 1369
4.	finis	x 1246
5.	motorise	x 1214
6.	misplace	x 1208
7.	unmask	x 937
8.	fur	x 928
9.	handpick	x 927
10.	proximo	x 899
11.	determiner	x 782
12.	derange	x 717
13.	hospitalise	x 714
14.	benefice	x 679
15.	conge	x 650
16.	hecatomb	x 593
17.	unstrung	x 592
18.	bulbul	x 567
19.	rontgen	x 561
20.	sextuplet	x 497
21.	confrere	x 491
22.	detente	x 487
23.	metier	x 487
24.	cloture	x 483
25.	corelate	x 465
26.	soupcon	x 461
27.	iterne	x 450
28.	gibbous	x 440
29.	senor	x 415
30.	depute	x 397
31.	macadamise	x 389
32.	pussycat	x 387
33.	inquietude	x 384
34.	transistorise	x 368
35.	slither	x 367
36.	habitue	x 361
37.	mastodon	x 358
38.	carpetbagger	x 334
39.	evacuee	x 329
40.	fete	x 327
41.	fleapit	x 322
42.	unsexed	x 315
43.	menage	x 314
44.	vocative	x 311
45.	arbor	x 310
46.	breadcrumb	x 309
47.	executant	x 302
48.	vivisect	x 301
49.	mensuration	x 300
50.	dejection	x 290
51.	highwayman	x 286
52.	graphical	x 282
53.	sri	x 282
54.	mercerise	x 272
55.	stylise	x 271
56.	goer	x 268
57.	esthete	x 265
58.	deism	x 259
59.	darky	x 258
60.	markdown	x 258
61.	laurels	x 254
62.	acclivity	x 252
63.	flu	x 252
64.	dashboard	x 245
65.	calliper	x 240
66.	colloquy	x 236
67.	vicuna	x 234
68.	ameba	x 230
69.	mambo	x 229
70.	civilise	x 225
71.	wink	x 225
72.	estate	x 224
73.	esperanto	x 222
74.	corvee	x 220
75.	gory	x 220
76.	gateau	x 217
77.	medicament	x 217
78.	raglan	x 215
79.	grippe	x 214
80.	melange	x 214
81.	atom	x 213
82.	freeboard	x 213
83.	seance	x 213
84.	senora	x 211
85.	soiree	x 211
86.	swayback	x 210
87.	tracksuit	x 207
88.	individualise	x 206
89.	demode	x 205
90.	milgramme	x 205
91.	vesture	x 204
92.	payday	x 201
93.	afrikaans	x 200
94.	ineluctable	x 200
95.	tatter	x 199
96.	kummel	x 198
97.	hop	x 196
98.	sundrenched	x 196
99.	baton	x 194
100.	scion	x 193

You can download the updated CSV file as ZIP. It consists of the 2003 and 2006 page count, as well as Google definitions and synonyms for the word.

Most Popular Words 2006 by Philipp Lenssen | Comments (37)

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