Most common words in English and contractions of those conjugations. Note also that these top 100 lemmas listed below account for 50% of all the words in the Oxford English Corpus. A list of 100 words that occur most frequently in written English is given below, based on an analysis of the Oxford English Corpus (a collection of texts in the English language, comprising over 2 billion running words). A part of speech is provided for most of the words, but part of speech categories vary between analyses, and not all possibilities are listed. For example, "I" may be a pronoun or a Roman numeral;
Lee (English surname) Korean diaspora translating numerous surnames also romanized as Li, particularly the one deriving from the Chinese word for "plum" (, "Lǐ"; , "Lee"; , "Rhee"; Vietnamese</small> , quốc ngữ Lê, Lý or Lí) which is among the most common surnames in the world. In America, Lee is the most common surname for Chinese and Korean Americans and the second-most-common surname for Asian and Pacific Islanders, behind the Vietnamese Nguyen. Similarly, Lee is the third-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans. Originating from Norway as "Lie", this surname was altered when it arrived in the Americas in the late 1800s to fit the