I, you, they, someone, nothing: the small words that point. Ordered by how often each word appears in modern English, most common first. Tap a word to open its page with collocations and example sentences.
| # | Word | Part of speech |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | i | pronoun |
| 10 | that | pronoun, adjective, adverb, conjunction |
| 11 | you | pronoun, noun |
| 12 | it | pronoun, noun |
| 15 | this | pronoun, adjective, adverb |
| 18 | as | adverb, conjunction, pronoun, preposition |
| 22 | he | pronoun |
| 27 | my | pronoun |
| 29 | we | pronoun |
| 31 | your | pronoun |
| 32 | all | adjective, pronoun, noun, adverb |
| 33 | so | adverb, conjunction, pronoun, adjective |
| 34 | his | pronoun, adjective |
| 35 | they | pronoun |
| 36 | me | pronoun |
| 38 | one | adjective, noun, pronoun |
| 46 | what | pronoun, adjective, adverb, interjection |
| 53 | who | pronoun |
| 55 | their | pronoun |
| 56 | there | adverb, pronoun, noun, adjective |
| 57 | her | pronoun |
| 58 | which | pronoun, adjective |
| 63 | she | pronoun, noun |
| 67 | some | adjective, pronoun, adverb |
| 69 | them | pronoun |
| 71 | other | adjective, noun, pronoun, adverb |
| 72 | its | pronoun |
| 73 | our | pronoun |
| 79 | him | pronoun |
| 91 | these | pronoun, adjective |
| 92 | us | pronoun |
| 101 | where | adverb, pronoun, noun |
| 119 | many | adjective, noun, pronoun |
| 121 | those | pronoun |
| 137 | something | pronoun |
| 139 | same | adjective, pronoun, adverb |
| 157 | another | adjective, pronoun |
| 189 | someone | pronoun |
| 194 | lot | pronoun, adverb, noun, verb |
| 200 | few | adjective, noun, pronoun |
| 218 | anything | pronoun, noun, adverb |
| 220 | nothing | noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb |
| 225 | everything | pronoun |
| 266 | everyone | pronoun |
| 332 | anyone | pronoun |
| 392 | myself | pronoun |
| 393 | yourself | pronoun |
| 443 | himself | pronoun |
| 446 | self | noun, pronoun, adjective, verb |
| 535 | certain | adjective, pronoun |
| 546 | themselves | pronoun |
| 571 | whatever | pronoun, adverb, interjection |
| 617 | itself | pronoun |
| 674 | whose | pronoun |
| 707 | mine | pronoun, noun, verb |
| 854 | nobody | pronoun, noun |
| 889 | none | pronoun, adverb, adjective |
| 1036 | everybody | pronoun |
| 1107 | somebody | pronoun |
| 1136 | herself | pronoun |
| 1159 | neither | conjunction, adjective, pronoun |
| 1207 | yours | pronoun |
| 1437 | ourselves | pronoun |
| 1548 | anybody | pronoun, noun |
| 1830 | whoever | pronoun |
| 1856 | nowhere | adverb, pronoun, adjective |
Practice · 3 min
Go down the first fifty rows and mark every word you could not use in a sentence right now. Open three of them and say one example sentence from each page out loud.