With so much lingo used in TV shows, have you ever questioned what are the most common words heard on screen?
A new study by Preply answers just this. The team have trawled hundreds of hours of TV to find out which are the most commonly used words on television – and surprisingly enough it’s the word know that’s used most commonly – with an average of 472 uses per hour.
https://preply.com/en/blog/most-commonly-used-words-on-tv/
Taking into account shows from 2022, the team have studied scripts of varying genres to break down the frequency of word usage in each one. Ranking each word out of a usage score of 15780, the averages were revealed…
See how other words stack up below:
- Know – 1416 (472 average uses per hour)
- Like – 1080 (360 average uses per hour)
- Us – 484 (161 average uses per hour)
- Back – 444 (148 average uses per hour)
- Sorry – 433 (144 average uses per hour)
- Tell – 427 (142 average uses per hour)
- Love – 348 (116 average uses per hour)
- F*** – 344 (115 average uses per hour)
- Mean – 336 (112 average uses per hour)
- Please – 331 (110 average uses per hour)
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