This site lists the 300 most common English Words.The first 25 make up about one-third of all printed material in English. The first 100 make up about one-half of all written material, and the 300 taken together make up about sixty-five percent of all written material in English.
Here's an example using the first 100 words and why we need the remaining 200 hundred words to say something others will understand.
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