id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crln-8663 Pattillo, Gary Fast Facts 2011-11-01 1 .pdf application/pdf 553 23 52 That is, roughly 50 percent of English language usage consists of 100 words. The top 100 lemmas (the base form of a word) account for 50 percent of modern English language usage. cache/crln-8663.pdf txt/crln-8663.txt