Most common words in Spanish of spoken Spanish. Most common words in Spanish Below are two estimates of the most common words in Modern Spanish. Each estimate comes from an analysis of a different text corpus. A "text corpus" is a large collection of samples of written and/or spoken language, that has been carefully prepared for linguistic analysis. To determine which words are the most common, researchers create a database of all the words found in the corpus, and categorise them based on the context in which they are used. The first table lists the 100 most common word forms from the Corpus de Referencia
Most common words in Spanish includes samples from all Spanish-speaking countries. The list of "1000 most frequent word forms" comes from an analysis of CREA version 3.2. Plurals, verb conjugations, and other inflections are ranked separately. Homonyms, however, are not distinguished from one another. CREA 3.2 was published in June 2008. In 2006, Mark Davies, an associate professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University, published his estimate of the 5000 most common words in Modern Spanish. To make this list, he compiled samples only from 20th-century sources—especially from the years 1970 to 2000. Most of the sources are from the 1990s. Of the 20 million