The 5,000 most common Ukrainian 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 Ukrainian and you follow 40.7% of everyday speech. The first 1000 take you to 65.7%. After that every thousand words buys less than the thousand before it, which is exactly why the order matters.
| Words known | Speech followed | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 15.8% | |
| 50 | 32.7% | |
| 100 | 40.7% | |
| 250 | 51.1% | |
| 500 | 58.5% | |
| 1,000 | 65.7% | |
| 2,000 | 72.6% | |
| 3,000 | 76.5% | |
| 5,000 | 81.3% | |
| 8,000 | 85.5% | |
| 10,000 | 87.4% | |
| 15,000 | 90.9% | |
| 20,000 | 93.3% |
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 Ukrainian
In order. The percentage is the share of ordinary speech you cover once you know that word and every word above it.
- 1я3.56%
- 2не6.6%
- 3в8.07%
- 4що9.45%
- 5на10.64%
- 6це11.77%
- 7ти12.85%
- 8что13.9%
- 9так14.89%
- 10у15.85%
- 11і16.81%
- 12ты17.7%
- 13и18.5%
- 14это19.26%
- 15з20.01%
- 16а20.74%
- 17ми21.25%
- 18все21.74%
- 19тебе22.22%
- 20він22.7%
- 21як23.17%
- 22за23.64%
- 23ви24.11%
- 24с24.56%
- 25до24.98%
- 26мене25.39%
- 27он25.77%
- 28мені26.14%
- 29ні26.51%
- 30але26.88%
- 31мы27.22%
- 32мне27.55%
- 33да27.88%
- 34как28.2%
- 35просто28.5%
- 36меня28.8%
- 37нет29.1%
- 38тут29.4%
- 39для29.7%
- 40його30.0%
- 41п30.29%
- 42о30.57%
- 43вы30.85%
- 44но31.13%
- 45то31.4%
- 46ну31.67%
- 47знаю31.93%
- 48про32.2%
- 49нас32.45%
- 50вас32.7%
- 51вони32.94%
- 52тебя33.16%
- 53вона33.39%
- 54она33.61%
- 55тобі33.83%
- 56ж34.05%
- 57его34.27%
- 58там34.47%
- 59якщо34.68%
- 60ще34.88%
- 61та35.07%
- 62добре35.27%
- 63щоб35.46%
- 64є35.65%
- 65вам35.84%
- 66по36.02%
- 67нам36.2%
- 68хочу36.38%
- 69коли36.56%
- 70если36.73%
- 71бы36.9%
- 72б37.07%
- 73же37.23%
- 74вже37.38%
- 75було37.54%
- 76її37.68%
- 77був37.83%
- 78они37.97%
- 79може38.12%
- 80чи38.25%
- 81чтобы38.39%
- 82дуже38.53%
- 83від38.66%
- 84хорошо38.79%
- 85чому38.92%
- 86буде39.05%
- 87хто39.18%
- 88есть39.31%
- 89всё39.43%
- 90давай39.56%
- 91тому39.68%
- 92де39.8%
- 93здесь39.92%
- 94треба40.04%
- 95от40.16%
- 96думаю40.28%
- 97к40.4%
- 98когда40.51%
- 99из40.63%
- 100того40.74%
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Where Ukrainian comes from
Proto-Indo-European › Balto-Slavic › Slavic › East Slavic › Ukrainian
Three languages that were one until a few centuries ago.
Where the numbers come from
Frequencies counted over the OpenSubtitles 2018 dialogue corpus, 4,736,584 tokens of Ukrainian 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.