Most frequently SPOKEN word

Webster Online Rosetta Edition says:

Usage Frequency: "I"
"I" is generally used as a pronoun (personal) -- approximately 97.71% of the time. "I" is used about 904,364 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

                     Parts of Speech Percent     Usage per 100 Million    Words Rank in English
Pronoun (personal)   97.71%                       883,662                                   11 
Cardinal Number       0.94%                            8,500                                   1,135 
Alphabetical Symbol  0.87%                           7,832                                    1,235 
Unclassified Items     0.35%                           3,132                                     3,001 
Noun (proper)         0.14%                            1,234                                      6,330 
Total                     100.00%                        904,364                                    N/A

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I'm writing an article on prayer. In it, one of the reasons I list for Christians in the USA not praying as much as they should (for the most part) is self-reliance. In short, "I can do it," whatever it is. In essence, "playing God." All that to say, with the response I received and through searches on the Internet, I chose to safely say, "I is one of the most used words." So far, there just doesn't seem to be a firm number on the most frequently spoken (as opposed to written or used) English words. Thank you for your assistance!