What is the most common word in Japanese?
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What is the most common word in Japanese?
The most common word, according to pretty much all the frequency lists I've
found, is:

##  する

Although if you count particles and auxiliaries, then **の** is probably the
most common.

Sources:

  * [Frequency list 1](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists/Japanese)
  * [Frequency list 2](http://www.manythings.org/japanese/words/leeds/)
  * [Frequency list 3](http://shang.kapsi.fi/kanji/jawp-mecab-words.csv)
  * [Frequency list 4](http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/wordfreq_ck.gz)
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