The list below was created by finding the most common 1000 words in a large corpus of Irish texts (excluding, for simplicity, words already containing hyphens or apostrophes). All uppercase letters were made lowercase. Hyphens have been inserted according to the rules contained in the latest version of the hyphenation patterns.

Of course many of the highest frequency words are short function words which do not admit hyphenations. Note however that the absence of “bad” hyphens is just as important as complete coverage of “good” hyphens; please keep this in mind while scanning the list for errors.