THE OXFORD 3000 AND OXFORD 5000

0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 Text coverage (%) Number of words c.87% Figure 1. The proportion of words in a text that can be understood with knowledge of increasing numbers of the most frequent words in English (adapted from Milton, 2009, p. 52) Figure 1 shows that the 3,000 most frequent words in English will typically make ... ................
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