The 1,972 most common Armenian words
Ranked by how often they actually turn up in spoken dialogue, not by how useful somebody guessed they would be.
Every number below is counted from a corpus, and the corpus is named at the bottom.
What each step buys you
Learn the first 100 words of Armenian and you follow 44.5% of everyday speech. The first 1000 take you to 83.5%. After that every thousand words buys less than the thousand before it, which is exactly why the order matters.
| Words known | Speech followed | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 14.0% | |
| 50 | 33.1% | |
| 100 | 44.5% | |
| 250 | 59.7% | |
| 500 | 71.6% | |
| 1,000 | 83.5% |
Comfortable reading starts around 98%. Everything before that is still worth doing, but the first hundred words buy you a foothold, not comprehension.
The first 100 words of Armenian
In order. The percentage is the share of ordinary speech you cover once you know that word and every word above it.
- 1է3.72%
- 2եմ5.73%
- 3եք7.19%
- 4ես8.43%
- 5որ9.46%
- 6պր10.47%
- 7մի11.43%
- 8էր12.33%
- 9ձեզ13.18%
- 10նա14.0%
- 11ինձ14.8%
- 12ոչ15.56%
- 13և16.31%
- 14այդ17.02%
- 15էի17.69%
- 16համար18.33%
- 17ձեր18.94%
- 18չէ19.52%
- 19դուք20.1%
- 20ի20.66%
- 21այս21.2%
- 22սակայն21.73%
- 23ք22.26%
- 24նրա22.77%
- 25ուզում23.28%
- 26բայց23.77%
- 27ր24.24%
- 28կատադրոյֆե24.72%
- 29պարոն25.18%
- 30ինչ25.64%
- 31կարող26.08%
- 32իսկ26.52%
- 33իմ26.93%
- 34հետ27.34%
- 35նչ27.74%
- 36քեզ28.13%
- 37այստեղ28.53%
- 38նրան28.92%
- 39թե29.29%
- 40պետք29.66%
- 41արդեն30.04%
- 42միայն30.39%
- 43ն30.75%
- 44ամեն31.09%
- 45բան31.43%
- 46մեկ31.77%
- 47են32.11%
- 48եվ32.45%
- 49դե32.79%
- 50անգամ33.13%
- 51չեմ33.45%
- 52նոր33.76%
- 53եթե34.06%
- 54չէր34.37%
- 55էլ34.68%
- 56դրեյվերհավենը34.98%
- 57այն35.27%
- 58այլ35.56%
- 59դա35.85%
- 60շատ36.14%
- 61ոչինչ36.41%
- 62դեռ36.68%
- 63լ36.94%
- 64հետո37.19%
- 65լավ37.43%
- 66օրիորդ37.67%
- 67յակոբ37.89%
- 68ս38.11%
- 69ւ38.33%
- 70յակո38.55%
- 71բ38.77%
- 72նրանից38.99%
- 73ղ39.21%
- 74այո39.43%
- 75ավելի39.65%
- 76բարի39.87%
- 77եկել40.1%
- 78չի40.32%
- 79ժամանակ40.54%
- 80մայրս40.76%
- 81գուցե40.98%
- 82այդպես41.18%
- 83այլևս41.39%
- 84մոտ41.59%
- 85խնդրում41.79%
- 86էին42.0%
- 87ւմ42.2%
- 88ենք42.41%
- 89մեր42.59%
- 90գուլդեն42.78%
- 91ո42.97%
- 92մորս43.15%
- 93սնանկ43.32%
- 94մասին43.49%
- 95կարծում43.66%
- 96ինչո43.83%
- 97երբեք44.0%
- 98տանը44.17%
- 99տարի44.34%
- 100մեջ44.51%
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Where Armenian comes from
Proto-Indo-European › Armenian
A branch all by itself, with an alphabet invented for it by one man.
Where the numbers come from
Frequencies counted over the OpenSubtitles 2018 dialogue corpus, 5,886 tokens of Armenian in total. Lists compiled by Hermit Dave, released under CC BY-SA 3.0. Subtitles skew towards conversation, which is the point: this is the language people speak, not the language people publish.