What are the most frequently used words in the English language? You’re about to find out. In 1965, researcher Mark Mayzner published Tables of Single-letter and Digram Frequency Counts for Various ...

When my older son was barely two and a half years old, he was able to distinguish between automobile brands. From time to time, he’d ask me what brand a specific car he was looking at was, and and I ...

Most of us know that “the” is the most common word in the English language. But what are some other high-frequency words, both long and short? This amazing animated data bubble visualization by ...

I mentioned two days ago the very nice tool for mapping word-use in presidential inaugural addresses, created by Jonathan Feinberg of IBM. I should have mentioned the underlying open-ended tool Wordle ...

ESs and the GP in Japan associate different words with virtue. The font size of each word or set of words is proportional to the relative frequency of occurrence. Credit must be given to the creator.

My 5-year-old and I are lying on the couch, our bare summer legs in a tangle, faces pushed into our books. He’s teaching himself how to read, beginning with “Dog Man,” the Dav Pilkey graphic novel ...

Faizan Zaki, a seventh-grader from Allen, Texas, won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. He shared that he visualizes typing words on a keyboard to help him spell them. Zaki said his dream of ...