So I’m developing this game in my spare time, and I needed a list of commonly used words. Downloaded the Project Guttenberg DVD of popular texts, an open source dictionary of words, and built a simple program which scanned the DVD, parsed out all the words, compared against the dictionary, and updated the count of those words to arrive at a list of commonly used words.

And here’s the top 50 words I found, in order:

the
of
and
to
in
that
he
was
it
his
is
with
for
as
you
on
had
not
be
at
but
by
this
her
or
which
from
have
they
she
all
him
we
are
were
my
me
so
one
an
no
their
if
there
who
said
them
when
would
been

I don’t know if this is cool or… mundane…