43 languages

The words that do the most work.

The few hundred words that carry most of what anyone actually says, ranked from millions of subtitle lines.

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The top 12,000 entries carry this much of everything said in this corpus.

Tokens 16.5M in corpus
Entries 9,013 ranked
Phrases 697 promoted

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43 languages, every one translated to English.

The first 23 are built from the same 2,166 films, so their rankings can be compared directly.

Built from each language's own films. Rankings are sound, but not directly comparable with the set above.

The rankings

Ranked vocabulary, translations, and frequency.

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