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What's the most common word in Latin?
Christopher Francese compiled a frequency list of the most common Latin words and ranks them. This is done by lemma, not forms.
The top five are:
et
sum, esse, fui, futurum
qui, quae, quod
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What's the most common word in Latin?
Et
If we are treating distinct forms as separate words, et (mentioned in a comment by Cairnarvon) seems likely to be the winner, based on brief corpus searches of promising candidates.
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