Name: The 1,000 most common Italian words
Creator: Apera
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Keywords: Italian word frequency list, most common Italian words, Italian vocabulary list

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The first 20 of 1,000

Rank	Word	Meaning
1	e	and
2	non	not
3	che	that/which
4	di	of
5	la	the
6	il	the
7	un	a
8	a	to
9	per	for
10	è	is
11	in	in
12	una	a
13	mi	me
14	sono	am/are
15	ho	I have
16	si	oneself
17	ha	has
18	ma	but
19	lo	it/him
20	cosa	what

Both downloads contain all 1,000 forms. English meanings are brief guides and vary with context.

How the list is ordered

Ranked using published film and TV subtitle word counts, most frequent first. Forms count separately: è and sono are both forms of essere.

These forms account for an estimated 62% of word occurrences in reference data. Coverage varies by text; it does not measure understanding. How it's estimated

This list: CC BY-SA 4.0. Ranked from FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC BY-SA 3.0), which contains information from OPUS OpenSubtitles (ODC-BY). Sources and credits