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Time to Discover the Most Used Noun

Ever wonder what the most-used noun is in the English language? Well, a recent study by Oxford University in England has revealed that ?time? is likely to be it. While the most frequent words to be used include ?the? (#1), followed by ?be,? ?to,? ?of,? and, ?a,? ?in,? ?that,? ?have,? and ?I,? on a list of the top 25 most commonly used nouns, ?time? stood at the top, followed itself by ?year? in third place and ?day? in fifth place. The second most commonly used noun is ?person?.

On the list of nouns, ?man? stands at number seven while ?child? is listed number twelve and ?woman? is listed at fourteenth place. For those who feel that all people talk about these days is war, the word ?war? on the list of nouns placed at a distant forty-ninth compared to ?government?, which placed at number twenty. However, while ?war? was in forty-ninth, ?peace? was not listed in even the top 100 commonly used nouns in the English language.

For those who aren?t satisfied with just reading about the top 25 list and want to actually see it, well, here you go: The top 25 list of most commonly used nouns are as follows: 1) time, 2) person, 3) year, 4) way, 5) day, 6) thing, 7) man, 8) world, 9) life, 10) hand, 11) part, 12) child, 13) eye, 14) woman, 15) place, 16) work, 17) week, 18) case, 19) point, 20) government, 21) company, 22) number, 23) group, 24) problem, 25) fact.