The Top 100 Positive Words by Frequency



Here is a list of the top 100 positive words in the English language by frequency.

We have had a lot of positive feedback from our article about Positive words to use in your presentation. One question that we were asked a couple of times is “What are the most commonly used positive words?”

We did some research and could not find an easy answer. So we set off on a task of building a word-counting machine. Well, two months later and working through a few weekends, we have come up with our word-counting machine.

So far, we have counted 12.17 million words in over 10,300 books, articles and news stories – all written in English. We have mainly used the British English spellings, but it should be similar for US or American English.

So here is the list of positive words sorted by frequency.

Rank Positive Word Frequency
(per Million Words)
1 all 3887
2 one 3290
3 will 3209
4 would 2857
5 more 2495
6 could 1882
7 now 1852
8 very 1640
9 like 1589
10 can 1507
11 first 1348
12 see 1248
13 made 1184
14 know 1177
15 well 1175
16 just 1129
17 much 1064
18 most 1045
19 must 1035
20 new 1030
21 go 997
22 good 984
23 make 925
24 still 890
25 life 884
26 great 875
27 many 860
28 here 802
29 young 702
30 going 653
31 always 586
32 right 575
33 let 573
34 give 556
35 love 548
36 yes 547
37 better 466
38 really 452
39 best 422
40 heart 422
41 family 415
42 enough 397
43 whole 394
44 help 389
45 need 372
46 together 363
47 show 350
48 full 347
49 friend 344
50 believe 333
51 open 333
52 light 317
53 sure 313
54 power 311
55 change 302
56 indeed 298
57 large 296
58 party 292
59 kind 290
60 care 289
61 able 282
62 understand 273
63 idea 266
64 matter 263
65 hope 261
66 possible 254
67 rest 251
68 big 251
69 group 247
70 service 239
71 certain 234
72 soul 228
73 clear 228
74 top 228
75 reason 226
76 nature 224
77 support 223
78 real 220
79 free 218
80 happy 215
81 strong 211
82 answer 202
83 manner 198
84 social 195
85 ready 194
86 hold 190
87 sense 188
88 forward 183
89 pleasure 181
90 team 177
91 truth 175
92 interest 174
93 try 171
94 sound 167
95 sun 166
96 action 166
97 beautiful 163
98 master 160
99 fine 157
100 simply 155

The word-counting engine is very powerful and we are analysing over 1 million words per week. We hope to be able to use it to generate more articles over the coming months.

 

Published On: 2nd Jul 2015

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