WordCount: Tracking the Way We Use Language is an expertly designed site that lists 86,800 most frequently used English words in order of commonness. Based on the 100 million-word British National Corpus, the site ensures users an accurate representation of contemporary spoken and written English.
Features:
• 86,800 words arranged linearly and scaled to reflect frequency of usage
• Possibility of moving the list backward and forward to view one word at a time
• Tools for checking the rank of any word and finding words by rank
Site URL: http://www.wordcount.org/main.php