AskOxford: English Uncovered: the hundred commonest English words

Interestingly enough, 'coke', 'mp3', and 'sleeping pill' didn't make the noun list. Nor did 'pornj' on the adjective list.

Ah well. I'll do my part. Last night, I wished I had some coke, but din't (sic). So i drank a bunch of Coke and when I needed to go to sleep, I took a sleeping pill. The whole time, I was listening to mp3s.

AskOxford: English Uncovered: the hundred commonest English words: "Nouns
The commonest nouns are time, person, and year, followed by way and day (month is 40th). The majority of the top 25 nouns (15) are from Old English, and of the remainder most came into medieval English from Old French, and before that from Latin. The exception is group (French, from Italian), which did not appear until the 17th century.
Notice that many of these words are very common because they have more than one meaning: way and part, for example, are listed in this dictionary as having 18 and 16 different meanings respectively. Another reason for a word's high position on the list is that it forms part of many common phrases: most of the frequency of time, for example, comes from adverbial phrases like on time, in time, last time, next time, this time, etc.
1 time
2 person
3 year
4 way
5 day
6 thing
7 man
8 world
9 life
10 hand
11 part
12 child
13 eye
14 woman
15 place
16 work
17 week
18 case
19 point
20 government
21 company
22 number
23 group
24 problem
25 fact "