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Most common words in English

Most common words in English: frequency-ranked lists of words such as the, of, and, compiled from corpora like the Brown Corpus, BNC, and COCA. Key facts: Zipf's law, top 250 words cover about 80% of text, lemma versus word-form counting, and historical change since 1520.

Most Dangerous Game

Most Dangerous Game is a 2020-2023 American short-form action thriller series starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz, adapted from Richard Connell's 1924 short story. It premiered on Quibi, ran two seasons, and later streamed on The Roku Channel.

Most Eligible Bachelor (మోస్ట్ ఎలిజిబుల్ బ్యాచిలర్)

Most Eligible Bachelor (మోస్ట్ ఎలిజిబుల్ బ్యాచిలర్) is a 2021 Telugu romantic comedy directed by Bommarillu Bhaskar, starring Akhil Akkineni and Pooja Hegde, released 15 October 2021 on GA2 Pictures and streaming on Netflix.

Most Evil

Most Evil (2006–2015) is an American true-crime documentary series in which Columbia forensic psychiatrist Michael Stone rates killers on his scale of evil; later episodes were hosted by Kris Mohandie, and a 2018 spinoff, Most Evil: Ranked, continued the format.

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge

Most Extreme Elimination Challenge (MXC) is an American Spike TV comedy series, 2003-2007, that re-edited and redubbed Japanese Takeshi's Castle footage as a parody extreme-sports show with Groundlings voice actors.

Most favoured nation

Most favoured nation (MFN) is a trade law principle requiring a state to extend to all trading partners any advantage it grants to one, a cornerstone of the WTO.

Most Haunted

Most Haunted is a British paranormal reality TV series first broadcast 25 May 2002 on Living TV, presented by Yvette Fielding and produced by Antix Productions; team overnight investigations, an Ofcom 2005 entertainment ruling, 275 episodes, and seasons 28-29 in production distinguish it.

Most Holy Governing Synod

The Most Holy Governing Synod (Святейший Правительствующий Синод) was the governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, created by Peter I in 1721 in place of the patriarch.

Most probable number

The most probable number (MPN) method estimates the concentration of viable microorganisms, such as coliforms in water, milk, and food, from growth results across replicate dilution series.

Most recent common ancestor

Most recent common ancestor (MRCA) is the last individual from which a set of living organisms descends, such as in the converging maternal line of Mitochondrial Eve.

Most significant change

Most significant change (MSC) is a participatory monitoring and evaluation technique developed by Rick Davies in Bangladesh in the 1990s, in which panels of stakeholders select the most significant stories of change.

Most SNP

Most SNP, the New Bridge or Bridge of the Slovak National Uprising, is a road bridge across the Danube in Bratislava, Slovakia, opened in 1972.

Most Valuable Promotions

Most Valuable Promotions is a boxing and MMA company co-founded in 2021 by Jake Paul and Nakisa Bidarian, known for Paul vs. Tyson and its 2026 merger with the PFL.

Most-favored-nation clause

The most-favored-nation clause (最惠国待遇) was a provision in China's treaty-port treaties from 1843 onward under which any privilege granted to one foreign power was automatically extended to the others.

Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards

Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards, officially personality identification playing cards: a 2003 DIA-created deck showing 55 leaders of Saddam Hussein's regime, debuted by General Vincent Brooks on 11 April 2003, with Saddam as the Ace of Spades and about 2.5 million commercial decks sold.

MoStack

MoStack is the stage name of Montell Daley, a British rapper and singer-songwriter from Hornsey, North London, whose melodic style helped define UK rap's late-2010s crossover.

Mostafa A. El‐Sayed

Mostafa A. El-Sayed, also known as M. A. El-Sayed, is a physical chemist at Georgia Tech known for the El-Sayed rules and gold nanorod cancer therapy.

Mostafa Amar

Mostafa Amar, also known as Moustafa Amar (مصطفى قمر), is an Egyptian singer, composer, and actor born in 1966 in Alexandria, a central figure of 1990s jeel-pop.

Mostafa Kandil

Mostafa Kandil is an Egyptian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of the bus-booking company Swvl, which he founded in Cairo in 2017 and took public on Nasdaq in 2022.

Mostafa Khamenei

Mostafa Khamenei (سید مصطفی خامنه‌ای) is a Shia cleric who lives and teaches at the Qom Seminary, the eldest son of Ali Khamenei and brother of Mojtaba, Iran's supreme leader since 2026.

Mostafa Menessy

Mostafa Menessy, also printed as Mostafa El Menessy, is an Egyptian fintech entrepreneur who co-founded the Cairo payments company Paymob in 2015 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer.

Mostafa Rahmandoust

Mostafa Rahmandoust (مصطفی رحماندوست) is an Iranian poet, writer, and editor from Hamadan, a leading figure of modern Persian children's poetry, best known for Sad Daneh Yaghut.

Mostafa Ronaghi

Mostafa Ronaghi (مصطفی رونقی) is an Iranian-born, Sweden-trained genomics entrepreneur who co-invented pyrosequencing and served as Chief Technology Officer of Illumina from 2008 to 2020.

Mostafa Ziko (مصطفى محمد زكي عبد الرؤوف)

Mostafa Ziko (مصطفى محمد زكي عبد الرؤوف), born 1997 in Alexandria, is an Egyptian left winger for Pyramids FC and Egypt; 2026 World Cup scorer versus New Zealand and Argentina, CAF Super Cup and Egypt Cup winner 2025/26.

Mostaganem

Mostaganem (مستغانم), city and port in northwestern Algeria about 80 km east of Oran; Phoenician Murustaga, Ottoman then French colonial town, now a university and port city of about 146,000 people.

Mostaganem Province

Mostaganem Province (ولاية مستغانم), a coastal wilaya of northwest Algeria on the Mediterranean, capital Mostaganem city; 2,269 km², 124 km coast, 10 daïras, 32 communes, agriculture, fishing, and tourism economy.

Mostagedda

Mostagedda is an archaeological site on the edge of the western desert in Upper Egypt, best known for cemeteries covering almost all periods of Egyptian history.

Mostaland Parc

Mostaland Parc is an amusement park and zoo opened 13 July 2017 at Kharouba near Mostaganem, Algeria, on the RN 11; 54 hectares, 200 million DA investment, 80-cage zoo, 12-hectare aquatic basin, 5,000-space parking.

Mostar

Mostar, city on the Neretva River in Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina; named for its Old Bridge (Stari Most), built 1566 by Hayruddin, destroyed 1993, rebuilt 2004, UNESCO World Heritage since 2005; 105,797 residents (2013 census).

Mostarda Oil and Gas Field

Mostarda is an oil and gas field in ultra-deep water on Block 32, about 150 kilometers off Angola, developed by the Kaombo project from 2018.