The adjective “New” is the most commonly used word on the internet, accounting for 0.46% of all main words and 0.26% of all words found online. It shares the top spot with the adverb “more.”
The top 5 list of the most common words on the internet is closed with 3 nouns: “home,” “page,” and “search,” accounting for 0.38%, 0.32%, and 0.31% of all words, respectively.
74 most frequent words account for over 5% of all words used on the internet.
126 most common words account for over 10% of all words used on the internet.
Word
Type
Frequency
Frequency among main words
new
Adjective
0.26%
0.46%
more
Adverb
0.26%
0.46%
home
Noun
0.22%
0.38%
page
Noun
0.18%
0.32%
search
Noun
0.17%
0.31%
free
Adjective
0.17%
0.30%
other
Adjective
0.17%
0.29%
information
Noun
0.16%
0.28%
time
Noun
0.15%
0.27%
site
Noun
0.14%
0.25%
news
Noun
0.13%
0.23%
use
Verb
0.12%
0.22%
see
Verb
0.12%
0.20%
only
Adverb
0.11%
0.20%
so
Adverb
0.11%
0.20%
contact
Noun
0.11%
0.19%
here
Adverb
0.11%
0.19%
business
Noun
0.11%
0.19%
web
Noun
0.11%
0.19%
also
Adverb
0.10%
0.18%
All word types included, the determiner “the” is the most common word found on the internet, making up for 3.93% of all words.
It is followed by the deposition “of”, which accounts for 2.24% of all internet words.
5 most used words on the internet account for over 12% of all words used.
First 464 words in terms of frequency account for over 50% of all words used on the internet.
12,000 unique words account for over 90% of all words used on the internet.
Word
Type
Frequency
the
Determiner
3.93%
of
Adposition
2.24%
and
Coordinating conjunction
2.21%
to
Particle
2.06%
a
Determiner
1.54%
in
Adposition
1.44%
for
Adposition
1.01%
is
Auxiliary verb
0.80%
on
Adposition
0.64%
that
Subordinating conjunction
0.58%
by
Adposition
0.57%
this
Determiner
0.55%
with
Adposition
0.54%
i
Pronoun
0.52%
you
Pronoun
0.51%
it
Pronoun
0.48%
not
Particle
0.45%
or
Coordinating conjunction
0.44%
be
Auxiliary verb
0.41%
The Internet is a great place to increase a person’s vocabulary. Words Rated has created several word tools, such as the Unjumbled Words tool, that help people learn new words from any letter combination. For example, try out generating as many 5-letter and 2-letter words as possible.
In terms of word types, nouns are the most frequent words used on the internet, accounting for 34.70% of all words. However, 48.52% of all unique words on the internet are nouns.
Adpositions are the second most-used word type on the internet, accounting for 10.17% of all words, even though only 0.53% of all unique words are adpositions.
Over 95% of all words used online are one of the 4 main word types (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs). However, they only account for 63% of all words used on the internet.
