{"id":62961,"date":"2018-09-25T10:45:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/?p=62961"},"modified":"2025-10-24T03:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T03:16:03","slug":"top-100-words-in-american-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/top-100-words-in-american-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Pronunciation \u2013 The Definitive Guide to the Top 100 Words in American English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re aiming to enhance your English pronunciation and comprehension, this video covers essential aspects of natural American English pronunciation: reductions, linking, syllable stress, and placement.<\/p>\n<span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/100-most-common-words\/\" rel=\"tag\">100 Most Common Words<\/a><\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>YouTube blocked? <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIZdTPwWL5I\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Pronunciation \u2013 The Definitive Guide to the Top 100 Words in American English | Rachel\u2019s English\" title=\"Play video &quot;Pronunciation \u2013 The Definitive Guide to the Top 100 Words in American English | Rachel\u2019s English&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIZdTPwWL5I<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIZdTPwWL5I\" title=\"Pronunciation \u2013 The Definitive Guide to the Top 100 Words in American English | Rachel\u2019s English\">Pronunciation \u2013 The Definitive Guide to the Top 100 Words in American English | Rachel\u2019s English (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIZdTPwWL5I)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2>\n<p>This is your final lesson in the 100 most common words in English series.\u00a0 Here, we\u2019ve been going over the pronunciation of the 100 most common words in American English to see what we could learn, and I\u2019ve been teaching pronunciation and accent reduction for over 10 years, and even I was surprised at what we saw.\u00a0 Today we\u2019re going to go over lessons that we\u2019ve learned in the previous videos and talk about how you can approach studying the pronunciation of American English.<\/p>\n<p>I started this project because I saw another teacher going over how to pronounce the 100 most common words in English on YouTube, and I was surprised by what was being taught.\u00a0 It was the full and complete pronunciation of each word, for example, AND was taught to be pronounced AND but that\u2019s not how we pronounce it!\u00a0 Let\u2019s hop over to Youglish to study Americans using this word in sentences, without thinking about the pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p>And, and.<\/p>\n<p>And you have&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And with, and with<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>And so<\/p>\n<p>And you, and you<\/p>\n<p>And you, and you<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re getting either and or an&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>So you can hear, it\u2019s not AND.\u00a0 It\u2019s \u2018an\u2019, or \u2018n\u2019, reduced, said really quickly.\u00a0 So, I wanted to make you a series where we talked about this, the real pronunciation, the way words are used in whole sentences.<\/p>\n<p>AND is a stressed pronunciation, and. But in English many words are unstressed, or even reduced, and this is what happens with \u2018and\u2019.\u00a0 We reduce it:\u00a0 that means we drop or change a sound.\u00a0 And what I found as we went through the words together really surprised me.\u00a0 Out of 100, there were only 25 words where I thought, that\u2019s never unstressed, and it never reduces.\u00a0 We never change or drop a sound.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 Only 25 out of a hundred.\u00a0 That means if you go by the book pronunciation, the full, stressed pronunciation, you will not sound natural speaking English.<\/p>\n<p>In the very first video, we played around with what English would sound like if every word was stressed and fully pronounced.\u00a0 The sentence was: This is for work.\u00a0This is for work.\u00a0\u00a0It should be:\u00a0This is for work.\u00a0\u00a0This&#8211; is for work.\u00a0 We have the \u2018for\u2019 reduction.\u00a0 What if every word was stressed?\u00a0This is for work.\u00a0\u00a0This is for work.\u00a0\u00a0Every word would have\u00a0\u00a0that up-down shape of stress, would be longer, and it sounds a little robotic, doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0It definitely doesn&#8217;t sound like natural American English.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at one more sentence.\u00a0 All of these words are in our 100 Most common words list.\u00a0 Stressing, fully pronouncing each word sounds like this:\u00a0I am going to get my first one.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to get my first one.\u00a0 Uh-uh-uh. Up-down shape of stress. Other than the stress, everything else is perfect English:\u00a0 all the sounds are right, everything is linked together.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to get my first one.<br \/>\nI am going to get my first one.<br \/>\nI am going to get my first one.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to do that. It&#8217;s hard to make everything stressed. It sounds completely unnatural even though placement is right, linking, the sounds.\u00a0It sounds completely unnatural because of the stress.\u00a0We have to have unstressed or reduced words for rhythmic contrast.\u00a0 We have to have rhythmic contrast for natural, native English.<\/p>\n<p>So in this series, we studied the real pronunciation, not the book pronunciation, not the full pronunciation. But the pronunciations actually used in sentences, in conversation.\u00a0 Let\u2019s draw some conclusions together.<\/p>\n<p>We have two kinds of words in English:\u00a0 content words, which are nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, and function words, which are all the other kinds of words.\u00a0 Content words are generally stressed, and function words are generally unstressed.\u00a0 Some of these words also reduce, meaning, we change or drop a sound.<\/p>\n<p>And what makes American English sound good and natural is not fully pronouncing each word, it\u2019s speaking with contrast between stressed, fully pronounced words, and unstressed, less clear words.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be afraid of the less clear words.\u00a0 The more you know about what they are and how they sound, the better your listening comprehension will be, and the more natural you\u2019ll sound when speaking English.<\/p>\n<p>When we began the list at 1, the most common word in American English, which is THE, it took us until number 28 to find the first word that is a real content word that will not reduce, that will not be contracted, that will not sometimes be unstressed.\u00a0 So that means the 27 words that came before it, the 27 most common words in American English, are either unstressed or reduced at least some of the time.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion here is, you can\u2019t just ignore this.\u00a0 Basically, you can almost not speak a single sentence without using words that are unstressed or reduced.\u00a0 We use them all the time.\u00a0 Unless you\u2019re just going to use single words, and never speak in sentences, you should know about this.<\/p>\n<p>The next conclusion is that, as we studied, we found that the words generally reduce one, maybe two ways.\u00a0 So you can learn this.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a mystery how to understand how we reduce words and how to practice them.\u00a0 I have two playlists that I\u2019ll link to at the end of this video, one is a playlist of videos that goes over specific words that reduce, like AND becoming \u2018n\u2019, and also to a playlist of my Ben Franklin exercise\u00ae videos.\u00a0 In these videos, we study conversation and find all of the function words that reduce, and how Americans use them to link words together.\u00a0 Those are great exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Now, here\u2019s a part where I do want to make a quick plug for my Academy.\u00a0 You may or may not know, I have an online school, Rachel\u2019s English Academy, with a collection of online courses that contain lots of videos, but even more importantly, lots of audio files.\u00a0 I\u2019ve found that when you watch a video, you learn something.\u00a0 But when you train with audio, repetitiously, you learn it with your body, you bring it into your habit, and you make it something you can use.\u00a0 So with all the videos you\u2019ll see on a specific reduction, I have audio files that help you train that word, over and over, in lots of common word combinations and sentences.\u00a0 I really encourage people to learn with the body, not just the mind when it comes to speaking, because we have to make these habits to improve.\u00a0 If you\u2019re interested in checking out the Academy, there is a 30-day money-back guarantee, you can see more by clicking here or in the description below.<\/p>\n<p>Another thing that surprised me as we studied the 100 most common words together was that there were quite a few content words where we did reduce or change something.\u00a0 Normally I would have said we never do that with a stressed word, but that wasn\u2019t right.\u00a0 For example, in \u2018just\u2019, \u2018first\u2019, and \u2018most\u2019, we can drop the T if the word is followed by another word that begins with a consonant.\u00a0 Just think about it.\u00a0 Just think, just think.\u00a0 This is really common.\u00a0 We drop the T between two other consonants.<\/p>\n<p>Also there are some stressed words that combine in very familiar combinations and reduce, like the verb \u2018go\u2019 in \u2018gonna\u2019, the word want in \u2018wanna\u2019, the word \u2018give\u2019 in \u2018gimme\u2019.\u00a0 Can you \u2018gimme\u2019 a second?\u00a0 These are not reductions that I would write, but in spoken English, they\u2019re really common, and yes, they\u2019re even good English.<\/p>\n<p>An effective way to practice your English is to take the text from a video, like a TED talk or your favorite TV show.\u00a0 But make sure you have the transcript, preferably printed out.\u00a0 I know that\u2019s very old-school.\u00a0 As you listen to a phrase, circle the words that pop out, that have that up-down shape, that are the most stressed.\u00a0 You might have to listen to the same phrase more that once.\u00a0 But as you focus on this, your ear will become more tuned to the stress.\u00a0 Study the phrases.\u00a0 You\u2019re looking at, not only the words you circled, but the words you didn\u2019t circle, these are the unstressed or reduced words.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my students need to practice making unstressed or reduced words more quickly and simply.\u00a0 The contrast of long and short doesn\u2019t feel natural to them.\u00a0 So as you study native speakers, pay attention to these unstressed words.\u00a0 Pay attention to the reductions.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a bad idea to watch this series again.\u00a0 You\u2019re getting a lot of bang for your buck because you\u2019re not studying random words here, you\u2019re studying the 100 most common ones. The ones you&#8217;re most likely to use over and over in conversation.\u00a0 In this series, you have the chance to study the shape of stress, the up-down melody of the voice, and also the contrast with the flat, lower pitch, simply and quickly said unstressed or reduced words.\u00a0 Make up additional sentences.\u00a0 Practice them out loud.\u00a0 If you felt really comfortable in all 100 of these words, that could make a real difference in your overall speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in this video I promised you links to a few playlists. Here they are.\u00a0 First, a playlist that goes over all the words that reduce.\u00a0 I have a video for the \u2018to\u2019 reduction, \u2018then\u2019, \u2018for\u2019, and several more.\u00a0 I\u2019m also linking here to the collection of Ben Franklin exercises\u00ae.\u00a0 That\u2019s when I take a bit of conversation and study everything about it, so we can pick out the reductions together and figure out how Americans use them so you in improve your listening comprehension and pronunciation.\u00a0 I\u2019ll also throw in a third playlist, that\u2019s going to be one focusing on real life English.\u00a0 In those videos, we often study reductions, as well as idioms, interesting vocabulary words, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy these playlists. 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