The 3,402 most common Kazakh 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 Kazakh and you follow 39.2% of everyday speech. The first 1000 take you to 73.9%. After that every thousand words buys less than the thousand before it, which is exactly why the order matters.
| Words known | Speech followed | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 12.1% | |
| 50 | 29.4% | |
| 100 | 39.2% | |
| 250 | 51.6% | |
| 500 | 62.1% | |
| 1,000 | 73.9% | |
| 2,000 | 85.4% | |
| 3,000 | 95.8% |
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 Kazakh
In order. The percentage is the share of ordinary speech you cover once you know that word and every word above it.
- 1мен2.9%
- 2ол4.72%
- 3жоқ5.99%
- 4не7.07%
- 5сен8.08%
- 6керек8.98%
- 7оны9.82%
- 8жақсы10.62%
- 9иә11.38%
- 10менің12.13%
- 11бұл12.86%
- 12бар13.58%
- 13ма14.29%
- 14емес14.92%
- 15маған15.53%
- 16оның16.14%
- 17деп16.75%
- 18сіз17.34%
- 19ба17.91%
- 20біз18.47%
- 21бе19.04%
- 22мені19.55%
- 23олар20.05%
- 24үшін20.53%
- 25де21.02%
- 26енді21.48%
- 27доктор21.91%
- 28бір22.32%
- 29николас22.74%
- 30жатыр23.11%
- 31адам23.49%
- 32саған23.85%
- 33ал24.2%
- 34неге24.54%
- 35және24.88%
- 36ғой25.22%
- 37сенің25.55%
- 38сені25.88%
- 39осында26.21%
- 40тек26.55%
- 41оған26.87%
- 42да27.16%
- 43малдер27.45%
- 44рахмет27.74%
- 45президент28.03%
- 46мүмкін28.33%
- 47едім28.61%
- 48бірақ28.89%
- 49сол29.17%
- 50осы29.45%
- 51дұрыс29.73%
- 52өтінемін30.01%
- 53болды30.28%
- 54басқа30.55%
- 55сіздің30.81%
- 56болады31.07%
- 57бәрі31.33%
- 58скалли31.58%
- 59егер31.83%
- 60болып32.07%
- 61білмеймін32.3%
- 62джо32.53%
- 63мына32.76%
- 64еді32.99%
- 65ме33.21%
- 66келеді33.42%
- 67қайда33.64%
- 68тағы33.85%
- 69мында34.05%
- 70уганда34.25%
- 71болса34.44%
- 72солай34.64%
- 73кім34.84%
- 74шығар35.03%
- 75сізді35.21%
- 76кешіріңіз35.39%
- 77алып35.57%
- 78болған35.74%
- 79кетті35.91%
- 80қалай36.08%
- 81әкей36.24%
- 82ештеңе36.41%
- 83пе36.58%
- 84тірі36.74%
- 85өте36.91%
- 86туралы37.07%
- 87біздің37.24%
- 88білемін37.4%
- 89жерде37.55%
- 90ше37.71%
- 91сияқты37.87%
- 92фбр38.02%
- 93меніңше38.18%
- 94әй38.32%
- 95сәлем38.47%
- 96жүр38.61%
- 97жерге38.76%
- 98бізге38.91%
- 99сізге39.05%
- 100әлі39.2%
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Where Kazakh comes from
Turkic › Kazakh
Everything is a suffix.
You can build a whole sentence by stacking endings onto one word.
Where the numbers come from
Frequencies counted over the OpenSubtitles 2018 dialogue corpus, 9,613 tokens of Kazakh 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.