| singular or mass noun | NN | 175 |
| adjective | JJ | 78 |
| verb, base form | VB | 76 |
| plural noun | NNS | 69 |
| verb, past participle | VBN | 44 |
| verb, 3rd. singular present | VBZ | 39 |
| adverb | RB | 34 |
| preposition | IN | 31 |
| verb, past tense | VBD | 25 |
| verb, present participle/gerund | VBG | 23 |
| verb, non 3rd person, singular, present | VBP | 16 |
| Personal pronoun | PRP | 15 |
| singular determiner/quantifier (this, that) | DT | 13 |
| Unknown | UNK | 12 |
| modal auxiliary (can, should, will) | MD | 9 |
| Possessive pronoun | PRP$ | 6 |
| Wh-adverb (how, where, when) | WRB | 6 |
| proper noun | NNP | 5 |
| Wh-pronoun (whom) | WP | 4 |
| coordinating conjunction (and, or) | CC | 4 |
| adverb/particle (about, off, up) | RP | 3 |
| cardinal numeral (one, two, 2, etc.) | CD | 3 |
| infinitive marker to | TO | 1 |
| interjection, exclamation | UH | 1 |
| existential there | EX | 1 |
| comparative adjective | JJR | 1 |
| foreign word (hyphenated before regular tag) | FW | 1 |
| wh-determiner (what, which) | WDT | 1 |