Bangla
frequency dictionary
The Bangla frequency dictionary ranks the 8,692 most common Bangla words and phrases, measured across 2,863,601 tokens of subtitle dialogue from the OpenSubtitles corpus. Learning the top 253 Bangla entries covers half of everything said, and the top 3,282 covers 80%. The single most common Bangla word is “আমি” (I), which accounts for 2.5% of running text on its own. Every entry carries its rank, raw count, Zipf score, and an English translation.
Corpus
These 8,692 entries account for 87.4% of all running Bangla text in the corpus.
253 of them cover half of it.
Bangla at a glance
The short answers, straight from the corpus.
- Words for half of speech
- 253
- Words for 80%
- 3,282
- Most common word
- আমি
- Corpus size
- 2,863,601 tokens
Entries needed to cover 50% of everything said in Bangla
Entries needed to cover 80% of running Bangla text
“I” — said 71,009 times in the Bangla corpus
100,718 distinct Bangla word forms were counted
Mixed rounds
Bangla · All three modes, shuffled
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The ten most common Bangla entries
Together they cover 12.7% of everything said in the corpus.
- 1 আমি I 71K×
- 2 না No 64.2K×
- 3 তুমি You 39.9K×
- 4 আমার My / Mine 38.7K×
- 5 কি What 31.6K×
- 6 এটা This 27.3K×
- 7 আর And 26K×
- 8 তোমার Your / Yours 24.5K×
- 9 আছে Have / Yes 22K×
- 10 এই This 19.7K×
How far each slice of the list gets you
Share of running Bangla text covered by everything up to that rank.
The six bands, in Bangla
The same bands the game asks you to guess.
| Band | Entries | Phrases | Median Zipf | Text covered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top 100 | 100 | 1 | 6.38 | 37.4% |
| 101–500 | 400 | 7 | 5.64 | 21.6% |
| 501–1,000 | 500 | 9 | 5.19 | 8.3% |
| 1,001–2,000 | 1,000 | 39 | 4.87 | 7.7% |
| 2,001–4,000 | 2,000 | 66 | 4.50 | 6.7% |
| 4,001–8,000 | 4,000 | 230 | 4.12 | 5.6% |
Word shape
Character lengths across the Bangla top 1,000 — average 2.6.
Characters per word
Phrases that behave like words
399 multi-word units earned a rank of their own.
- #48 ঠিক আছে Okay
- #148 আমি জানি I know
- #235 জানি না I don't know
- #275 এখান থেকে From here
- #317 পারবে না Can't
- #331 দয়া করে Please
- #448 করতে পারবে Can do
- #455 পারবো না I won't be able to
What stands out in Bangla
Read straight off this language's own numbers.
- Just 253 entries cover half of everything said in the Bangla subtitle corpus.
- The ten most common Bangla entries alone account for 12.7% of running text.
- 399 of the top 8,692 entries are multi-word phrases that behave like single units — the most common is “ঠিক আছে”.
- The longest single word inside the Bangla top 1,000 is “সবসময়” (5 characters, rank 276).
- Most of the Bangla top 1,000 is short: 2-character words are the single largest group, and the average is 2.6 characters.
- Frequency falls away fast: the whole 4,001–8,000 band together covers only 5.6% of the corpus.
How this Bangla ranking was calculated
Built once, offline, and shipped as static data.
The source is the Bangla side of OpenSubtitles v2018 via OPUS — 2,863,601 tokens of transcribed speech, which is closer to how people talk than a newspaper or Wikipedia corpus would be.
Words are counted using Bangla's own rules rather than by splitting on spaces, so the counts hold up for writing systems that do not put spaces between words. Timings, formatting and speaker names are stripped out first. 100,718 distinct words appear in all; the 8,692 most common are kept.
Repeated word sequences that hold together are promoted into the same ranking as single words, which is why 399 entries here are phrases. Each entry carries a raw count, a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and the cumulative share of running text it and everything above it cover.
English glosses come from a translation cascade with per-entry provenance, and anything the translators only echoed back is marked unresolved rather than presented as a translation. 19 of the 8,692 Bangla entries are still unresolved and are never used as game questions.
Common questions about Bangla word frequency
Answered from this language's own corpus.
How many Bangla words do you need to know?
Around 253 Bangla words and phrases cover half of everything said in ordinary speech, and about 3,282 cover 80%. Coverage climbs steeply at first and then flattens: the whole top 8,692 reaches 87.4%, so the last few thousand entries add far less than the first few hundred.
What are the most common Bangla words?
The ten most common Bangla entries are আমি (I), না (No), তুমি (You), আমার (My / Mine), কি (What), এটা (This), আর (And), তোমার (Your / Yours), আছে (Have / Yes) and এই (This). Together they account for 12.7% of all running Bangla text in the corpus.
What is the most common word in Bangla?
The most common Bangla word is “আমি”, meaning “I”. It appears 71,009 times across the corpus, which is 2.5% of everything said.
How is this Bangla frequency list calculated?
The list is built from the Bangla side of the OpenSubtitles corpus — 2,863,601 tokens of transcribed dialogue, which reflects spoken language far more closely than a news or encyclopedia corpus. Text is tokenised with Unicode word boundaries, subtitle timing and formatting are stripped, and the 100,718 distinct forms found are ranked by raw count. The top 8,692 are kept, each with a per-million rate, a Zipf score, and its cumulative share of running text.
Does the Bangla list include phrases as well as words?
Yes. 399 of the 8,692 Bangla entries are multi-word phrases that repeat tightly enough to behave like single vocabulary items — the most common is “ঠিক আছে” (Okay), at rank 48. They are ranked alongside single words rather than in a separate list, because knowing them as units is what fluency looks like.
How much Bangla do the top 100 words cover?
The 100 most common Bangla entries cover 37.4% of running text by themselves. That is why they are worth learning first: no other 100 items in the language come close.
Is the Bangla frequency dictionary free to download?
Yes. All 8,673 translated Bangla entries can be exported as JSON, CSV, TSV, Markdown, or an Anki deck straight from the dictionary page, with no account and no sign-up. The data is prebuilt and served as static files.
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Languages whose subtitle corpus is closest to Bangla's.