9.1: 100 Common Irregular Verbs
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A Hundred of the Most Common Irregular Verbs in English--Corpus-Based-Arranged by Frequency | |||||||
Base Form | Past Tense | Past Participle | Base Form | Past Tense | Past Participle | ||
1 | say | said | said | 26 | mean | meant | meant |
2 | make | made | made | 27 | set | set | set |
3 | go | went | gone | 28 | meet | met | met |
4 | take | took | taken | 29 | run | ran | run |
5 | come | came | come | 30 | pay | paid | paid |
6 | see | saw | seen | 31 | sit | sat | sat |
7 | know | knew | known | 32 | speak | spoke | spoken |
8 | get | got | gotten | 33 | sweep | swept | swept |
9 | give | gave | given | 34 | lead | led | led |
10 | find | found | found | 35 | read | read | read |
11 | think | thought | thought | 36 | grow | grew | grown |
12 | tell | told | told | 37 | lose | lost | lost |
13 | become | became | become | 38 | fall | fell | fallen |
14 | show | showed | shown | 39 | send | sent | sent |
15 | leave | left | left | 40 | build | built | built |
16 | feel | felt | felt | 41 | understand | understood | understood |
17 | put | put | put | 42 | draw | drew | drawn |
18 | bring | brought | brought | 43 | break | broke | broken |
19 | begin | began | begun | 44 | spend | spent | spent |
20 | keep | kept | kept | 45 | cut | cut | cut |
21 | hold | held | held | 46 | rise | rose | risen |
22 | write | wrote | written | 47 | drive | drove | driven |
23 | stand | stood | stood | 48 | buy | bought | bought |
24 | hear | heard | heard | 49 | wear | wore | worn |
25 | let | let | let | 50 | choose | chose | chosen |
The 100 Most Common Irregular Verbs in English--Corpus-Based | |||||||
Base Form | Past Tense | Past Participle | Base Form | Past Tense | Past Participle | ||
51 | seek | sought | sought | 76 | cost | cost | cost |
52 | throw | threw | thrown | 77 | beat | beat | beaten |
53 | catch | caught | caught | 78 | light | lit | lit |
54 | win | won | won | 79 | bet | bet | bet |
55 | forget | forgot | forgotten | 80 | cast | cast | cast |
56 | lay | laid | laid | 81 | hide | hid | hidden |
57 | sell | sold | sold | 82 | deal | dealt | dealt |
58 | fight | fought | fought | 83 | blow | blew | blown |
59 | sew | sewed | sewn | 84 | swim | swam | swum |
60 | teach | taught | taught | 85 | bend | bent | bent |
61 | eat | ate | eaten | 86 | wake | woke | woken |
62 | sing | sang | sung | 87 | stick | stuck | stuck |
63 | strike | struck | struck | 88 | fit | fit | fit |
64 | hang | hung | hung | 89 | quit | quit | quit |
65 | shake | shook | shaken | 90 | shut | shut | shut |
66 | ride | rode | ridden | 91 | steal | stole | stolen |
67 | feed | fed | fed | 92 | tear | tore | torn |
68 | shoot | shot | shot | 93 | hurt | hurt | hurt |
69 | drink | drank | drunk | 94 | ring | rang | rung |
70 | hit | hit | hit | 95 | spin | spun | spun |
71 | swing | swung | swung | 96 | bite | bit | bitten |
72 | fly | flew | flown | 97 | overcome | overcame | overcome |
73 | dig | dug | dug | 98 | freeze | froze | frozen |
74 | sleep | slept | slept | 99 | slide | slid | slid |
75 | spring | sprang | sprung | 100 | lend | lent | lent |
Orginal Content by Allyson Marceau