100 common verbs

A practical core of actions for everyday conversation, movement, work, and life.

Core and conversation

Movement and position

Daily life

Work, learning and change

People and feelings

Body, activity and nature

Everyday outcomes

Corpus counts informed the selection but did not dictate it: verified everyday foundations such as ‘be’, ‘go’, ‘eat’, and ‘read’ stay even where the current corpus has no hits.