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The 2023 {{tok|[[Linku]]}} survey results sort words into [[ijo Linku#Usage categories|usage categories]], making it convenient to choose a cutoff point by percentage of speakers.
{{tp|ale}} and {{tp|ali}} were polled for separately; {{tp|ali}} is counted as uncommon.
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:right;"
!Category
!{{abbr|Min.|Minimum}}<br />users
!Words
!rowspan="2"|Running<br />total
|-
!Core
|90%
|118
|-
!Widespread
|70%
|10
|128
|-
!Common
|50%
|7
|135
|-
!Uncommon
|20%
|14
|149
|-
!Rare
|10%
|11
|160
|-
!Obscure
|2%
|66
|226
|}
==Historical==
This section treats {{tp|[[ali]]}} as a spelling variant of {{tp|[[ale]]}}, not counting it as a separate word.
===By the books===
{{nasin pu}}
{{pu|en}}, published in 2014, advertises "120 words", but has 123 including the "[[synonym]]s" that it unsuccessfully tried to merge. Later editions include more words to better reflect contemporary usage. See {{tp|[[nimi pu]]}}.
{{nasin ku}}
{{ku|en}}, published in 2021, advertises "137 essential words", and includes up to 187 words overall. See {{tp|[[nimi ku]]}}.
===pre-{{tp|pu}}===
{{Start section|Historical}}
[[pre-pu|Before the first official book]], the count of words fluctuated a bit. For a long while, it stayed stable at 118 words.
====2001====
Early on, Toki Pona went through a lot of changes. Much of this era is lost. When speaking to outsiders about the language, {{tok|[[jan Sonja]]}} early on said that Toki Pona had 150 words, and less than 200. It's not unlikely that 150 words was higher than the count of the actual word list as it was first published.
====2002====
On 2002-05-15, a poll vote of 6 to 2 decides in favour of Sonja's proposal for a new word {{tp|kiwen}} to mean "rock, stone, metal, material".
On 2002-05-31, {{tp|iki}} changes to {{tp|ona}}.
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|+Word list 2002-06-07 (retrieval date)<div style="font-weight:normal;">Described as "98% complete"</div>
|-
!Word count
|120
|-
!non-{{tp|pu}} words
|{{tp|iki}} (listed as "archaic" and not counted), {{tp|kan}}, {{tp|kin}}, {{tp|leko}}, {{tp|oko}}
|-
!{{tp|
|{{tp|alasa}}, {{tp|ali}} (not counted), {{tp|esun}}, {{tp|pan}}, {{tp|pu}}
|}
{|class="wikitable"
|+Word origins 2002-08-09 (retrieval date)<div style="font-weight:normal;">Etymology list, reflects an older usage</div>
|-
!Word count
|121
|-
!non-{{tp|pu}} words
|{{tp|iki}}, {{tp|kan}}, {{tp|kin}}, {{tp|leko}}, {{tp|oko}}
|-
!{{tp|pu}} words not in list
|{{tp|alasa}}, {{tp|ali}} (not counted), {{tp|esun}}, {{tp|ona}}, {{tp|pan}}, {{tp|pu}}
|}
On 2002-11-01, {{tp|ali}} becomes an alternative to {{tp|ale}}, {{tp|en}} is used between head nouns instead of modifiers, {{tp|kan}} no longer exists, and {{tp|kin}} is used for emphasis of any word.
====2003====
{|class="wikitable"
|+Word list 2003-03-04 (retrieval date)<div style="font-weight:normal;">Described as "98% complete"</div>
|-
!Word count
|119
|-
!non-{{tp|pu}} words
|{{tp|iki}} (listed as "archaic" and not counted), {{tp|kan}}, {{tp|kin}}, {{tp|leko}}, {{tp|oko}}, {{tp|pata}}
|-
!{{tp|pu}} words not in list
|{{tp|alasa}}, {{tp|anu}}, {{tp|esun}}, {{tp|pan}}, {{tp|pu}}
|}
====2007====
{|class="wikitable"
|+Word list 2007-09-27 (retrieval date)
|-
|118
|-
|{{tp|kin}}, {{tp|oko}}
|-
!{{tp|pu}} words not in list
|{{tp|alasa}}, {{tp|esun}}, {{tp|pan}}, {{tp|pu}}
|}
====2009====
On 2009-04-01, the word {{tp|kijetesantakalu}} is introduced as an April Fool's joke.
{{End section}}
===Beyond the books===
Many, many, <em>many</em> other words have been created, most of which never have been used beyond their creation. It is impossible to find them all.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made in the form of [https://theepicosity.github.io/lipu-pi-ijo-pi-toki-pona/ {{tok|kule epiku Atawan}}'s {{tp|nimi ale}}]. It is an extremely indiscriminate collection, seeking to contain anything that anyone ever declared to be a Toki Pona word. As of the last edit<ref group="note">The Table of Contents claims it was last updated in 2020-02-24, but section 2a contains a link to a Discord message posted in <strong>2021</strong>-02-13.</ref>, the grand total (across sections 1 through 4) is 1165 words (some with multiple independent definitions). Over half of those are from [https://theepicosity.github.io/lipu-pi-ijo-pi-toki-pona/nimi-ale/NA%20-%202a.txt section 2a], "words in {{tok|[[ma pona pi toki pona]]}}", which catalogued every message containing the custom <code>:[[nimisin|{{tok|nimisin}}]]:</code> emote.
A somewhat more conservative list is {{tok|[[lipu Linku]]}}, which as of the August 2022 update contains 256 words. Even so, many of them are obscure, with 12 of them scoring 0% in a usage survey.
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