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Neil Shaw

50 most commonly used words in Spare - and Willy makes it in 317 times

The most commonly used words in Prince Harry’s book Spare have been revealed, thanks to new research by Casinos En Ligne, sharing a visual snapshot of the emotions and feelings in the form of a word cloud. After analysing his 150,000-word account, the five most common words to appear are “I”, “My”, “We”, “Me” and “He”.

These pronouns allude to the focus on the book being about himself, his feeling of being an outsider alongside his wife Meghan and his relationships with his brother Prince William and father King Charles. The analysis also found a number of words relating to the rift between his side of the family and the wider Royal Family including “Them” and “Us”.

Harry’s point of putting some stories straight is also present with words such as “didn’t”, “not”, “but” and “if” high up the list.

Of people, “Meg” is referenced the most (357 times), while “Willy” - his name for brother William - is next (317 times) and “Pa” - his label for father King Charles - is featured third most (302 times).

“Granny” is written 160 times, “Mummy” features 140 times and “Kate” is referenced 103 times.

Analysts conducted the research by studying the full text of the copy and listing the most used words - extracting commonly seen conjunctions and adverbs such as “the”, “a”, “it” and “about”.

50 Of The Most Used Words in Spare

Most Used Words

Word Count

I

4445

My

1537

We

1350

Me

1147

He

1071

But

1026

Her

976

She

852

They

651

His

519

No

502

Didn't

457

Our

436

Him

427

Them

413

Not

406

Us

395

Would

395

Just

378

If

369

Meg

357

Time

352

More

350

Their

326

Willy

319

Could

317

Pa

302

Wasn't

296

Thought

268

Felt

265

Over

263

Off

253

Never

239

He'd

227

Before

213

Always

211

Couldn't

211

Being

210

Wanted

205

We'd

202

Know

196

Because

188

Maybe

171

Go

163

Granny

160

Press

149

Family

140

Mummy

140

Kate

103

Camilla

62

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