The 5,000 most common Telugu 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 Telugu and you follow 45.3% of everyday speech. The first 1000 take you to 74.3%. After that every thousand words buys less than the thousand before it, which is exactly why the order matters.
| Words known | Speech followed | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 18.6% | |
| 50 | 36.4% | |
| 100 | 45.3% | |
| 250 | 56.7% | |
| 500 | 65.5% | |
| 1,000 | 74.3% | |
| 2,000 | 82.8% | |
| 3,000 | 87.3% | |
| 5,000 | 92.2% | |
| 8,000 | 95.9% | |
| 10,000 | 97.6% |
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 Telugu
In order. The percentage is the share of ordinary speech you cover once you know that word and every word above it.
- 1మీరు4.8%
- 2నేను8.79%
- 3ఒక10.8%
- 4మరియు12.13%
- 5ఉంది13.39%
- 6మేము14.48%
- 7ఈ15.57%
- 8లేదు16.59%
- 9నా17.59%
- 10మీ18.56%
- 11నాకు19.48%
- 12ఆ20.34%
- 13ఇది21.16%
- 14అతను21.97%
- 15అవును22.7%
- 16యొక్క23.4%
- 17ఇక్కడ24.02%
- 18అన్ని24.59%
- 19కాదు25.16%
- 20అది25.69%
- 21ఏమి26.21%
- 22కానీ26.68%
- 23ఆమె27.16%
- 24కోసం27.62%
- 25చాలా28.08%
- 26ఉన్నాయి28.53%
- 27వారు28.97%
- 28లో29.41%
- 29ఇప్పుడు29.84%
- 30తెలుసు30.25%
- 31గురించి30.65%
- 32వచ్చింది31.02%
- 33సంఖ్య31.38%
- 34కుడి31.73%
- 35కలిగి32.07%
- 36గొన్న32.4%
- 37ఉంటుంది32.73%
- 38మంచి33.04%
- 39హే33.34%
- 40న33.64%
- 41ఏమిటి33.93%
- 42చూడండి34.21%
- 43ఎలా34.49%
- 44నుండి34.76%
- 45తిరిగి35.04%
- 46ఉంటాయి35.31%
- 47కేవలం35.58%
- 48సరే35.85%
- 49ఓహ్36.12%
- 50ఎందుకు36.39%
- 51వద్ద36.65%
- 52అక్కడ36.91%
- 53అని37.16%
- 54కొన్ని37.4%
- 55బాగా37.63%
- 56am37.86%
- 57వెళ్ళి38.09%
- 58మా38.31%
- 59అవసరం38.54%
- 60లేదా38.76%
- 61ఉంటే38.98%
- 62వంటి39.19%
- 63తో39.4%
- 64ధన్యవాదాలు39.6%
- 65చేస్తున్నాను39.79%
- 66ఏ39.98%
- 67రెండు40.17%
- 68వ్యక్తి40.36%
- 69తన40.55%
- 70డౌన్40.73%
- 71ఏదో40.91%
- 72అప్41.09%
- 73పొందుటకు41.27%
- 74పొందండి41.44%
- 75మీకు41.62%
- 76కమ్41.79%
- 77మనిషి41.96%
- 78సర్42.13%
- 79మాకు42.3%
- 80వాటిని42.46%
- 81నన్ను42.62%
- 82పని42.77%
- 83కాల్42.93%
- 84సమయం43.08%
- 85సో43.23%
- 86నిజంగా43.38%
- 87ఎప్పుడూ43.53%
- 88ఎవరు43.68%
- 89ప్రతి43.81%
- 90అతనికి43.95%
- 91బయటకు44.08%
- 92డబ్బు44.21%
- 93ఖచ్చితంగా44.35%
- 94అతనిని44.48%
- 95రోజు44.61%
- 96ద్వారా44.74%
- 97ఉండాలి44.87%
- 98ఏం45.0%
- 99కూడా45.13%
- 100ఎందుకంటే45.26%
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Where Telugu comes from
Dravidian › Telugu
Older in India than the Indo-European languages that arrived later and took the north.
Where the numbers come from
Frequencies counted over the OpenSubtitles 2018 dialogue corpus, 118,427 tokens of Telugu 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.