Most used English word.

[Aaqil]

I very much so doubt it's "the", it has to be "a",

 

[Deleted member 58005]

Fuck

 

[Aaqil]

Mom

You're asking for the most used word, not just the most written word, so I'm including spoken language here.

https://cafemom.com/parenting/times-kid-says-mom-day

I doubt it's specifically "mom",

 

[Cipiteca396]

Could also be 'to'. Since it's used with infinitive verbs.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I doubt it's specifically "mom",

How many dad do you know make milk that comes out of their nipples?

 

[Aaqil]

How many dad do you know make milk that comes out of their nipples?

None,

I more so meant that synonyms such as "maa" are probably common enough to take "mom" specifically, off the most used word podium,

 

[Alfir]

Kakorrhaphiophobia...

 

[immortal1daoist]

the

 

[Kenjona]

To be fair, cue was most likely originally a misspelling of queue. The meaning is just too similar to be a coincidence.

To be fair the standardization of Written English did not take off until the 1800's. And many of our words come from other languages which may or may not have had several spelling variations of its own word. In this case: Cue, Coe, and Queue are from old French. Que is from Spanish and is a homophone to others so it ends up getting mixed up in spelling a lot. Of course Cue in English has a different meaning then the Old French word. We can thank the various dictionaries produced in the 1800's for that; nearly every publishing house made their own for sale; finally with Webster in the United States and Oxfords in England winning out as being the "Standards" for spelling.

The English language is very much a bastardization of everyone else's. :)

It is not the only language that has had issues with drifts in spelling and the spoken language itself; needing a dictated standardization to try and stem the drifts. Mandarin is another example that has had issues due to the vastness of the Chinese empire, its limited transportation network and relatively isolated communities.