The most commonly used English word on the internet and in print in the past year was “occupy”, a study has found. By Murray Wardrop and Murraywardrop 10 November 2011 • 1:35pm .

The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch. ‘The’. It’s omnipresent; we can’t imagine English without it. But it’s not much to look at ...

Lexicographers then deduced the ten words that appear the most. But a Harvard professor named George Kingsley Zipf had already predicted the result back in 1935.

WORDS such as “yeah”, “so”, “oh” and “like” are among the 100 most used in Britain, researchers say.Top of the list are “the”, “ ...

Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright guide us through the top 20 words in English. Not the best or most popular (that would include tentacular, ping-pong and sesquipedalian (look it up - it's a cracker).