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Word Frequency List of American English

1 Word Frequency List of American English Mark Davies and Dee Gardner 2010 These are sample entries (every seventh word, from word #35 on) from the word Frequency lists that are based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English . The full list is available in PDF eBook format -- $ for the 5,000 word list , $ for 10,000 words , and $ for the full 20,000 word list (nearly 2,000 pages). Standard introduction This word Frequency list is based on the 400+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which is the only large, recent, and genre-balanced corpus of American English . Due to the characteristics of the corpus on which the data is based, you can be sure that the words that you find here are ones that you would encounter in the "real world". Because the entries are arranged in order of Frequency , you can maximize your study of English vocabulary in a way that is probably not available with any other resource.

The full list is available in PDF eBook format -- $19.95 for the 5,000 word list, $29.95 for 10,000 words, and $39.95 for the full 20,000 word list (nearly 2,000 pages). Standard introduction This word frequency list is based on the 400+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American

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1 1 Word Frequency List of American English Mark Davies and Dee Gardner 2010 These are sample entries (every seventh word, from word #35 on) from the word Frequency lists that are based on the Corpus of Contemporary American English . The full list is available in PDF eBook format -- $ for the 5,000 word list , $ for 10,000 words , and $ for the full 20,000 word list (nearly 2,000 pages). Standard introduction This word Frequency list is based on the 400+ million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), which is the only large, recent, and genre-balanced corpus of American English . Due to the characteristics of the corpus on which the data is based, you can be sure that the words that you find here are ones that you would encounter in the "real world". Because the entries are arranged in order of Frequency , you can maximize your study of English vocabulary in a way that is probably not available with any other resource.

2 Other Frequency lists are available from These include Frequency and collocates lists that contain 200-300 collocates for each word (compared to the 20-30 here), for a total of about 5,000,000 collocates for the 20,000 word list . Unlike this PDF version, the expanded collocates lists allow you to edit, copy from, and print from the files. On the other hand, those versions are not formatted as nicely as what you have here, they are more expensive, and they are designed mainly for use by (computational) linguists. In addition to the Frequency lists , you can also purchase complete 2-gram and 3-gram lists from the entire 400 million word corpus, containing more than 100 million n-grams. You can also purchase a printed (book) version of the entries 1-5,000, which was published by Routledge in 2010 as the Frequency Dictionary of American English : word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists .

3 Finally, a note on accuracy. We believe that the Frequency list itself (the words #1-5,000, 10,000 or 20,000) is very accurate -- probably more so than any other Frequency list of English . In addition, the more than 100,000 collocates for words 1-5,000 have been corrected manually, although there are undoubtedly a few remaining problems. There are more than 250,000 collocates for the 10,000 word list and more than 500,000 collocates for the 20,000 word list . Because of the number of collocates, these have not been checked individually for accuracy, although many efforts have been made to correct the list as a whole. If you would like to see detailed information on the composition of the corpus, and details on exactly how the Frequency list was created (tokenization, part of speech tagging, lemmatization, Frequency and dispersion calculations, extracting collocates, etc), please see the introductory material in the book sample.

4 Thank you for purchasing this Frequency list. We hope that it will be a useful tool for you in your study, teaching, and research of English . 2 ALPHABETICAL INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z PART OF SPEECH INDEX verb noun adjective adverb function word (Note: use ALT to return to indexes from Frequency -based entries) Format of Frequency -based entries Rank Frequency (1, 2, 3, ..), lemma, part of speech Collocates ( Synonyms, when available) Raw Frequency , dispersion ( ), (register variation: Spoken, Fiction, Magazines, Newspapers, Academic) Note that the collocates are grouped by part of speech and ordered by Frequency (most frequent first). The * + symbol indicates pre/post placement with regards to the headword. 35 go v noun bed, bathroom, mile, nut, berserk, jail misc through, let , home, away, happen, ahead, beyond, sleep, anywhere, crazy on what , inside, list , forever, hell , fighting , length, usual, heck , indefinitely off bomb , alarm , siren , beeper , bulb , pager , tangent, firework , flashbulb , firecracker back let , home, forth, sleep, inside, upstairs, downstairs, jail up flame, smoke, curtain , cheer , eyebrow , dramatically, roar , chimney down sun , tube, swelling , breakfast, Titanic out dinner, public, party, breakfast leave, go away || travel, move || work, run || reach, extend || become, get || die, pass away 1151045 | S 42 her a she, she, hand, mother, eye, husband, own, head, tell , face, father, hair, arm, daughter 969591 | F 49 as i well, such , much , long , such , far , same , result.

5 Part, though, soon , serve , possible, describe in the role of, in the function of, having the status of, being 829018 | 56 think v noun people, thing, lot, reason, moment, mistake, nonsense, coincidence, retrospect misc I , you, do , we, about, what, well, really, important, maybe, probably, ever, everybody, anybody, frankly through problem, carefully, consequence, implication, situation, opportunity up idea, name, excuse, whoever , clever, creative back when, over reason, contemplate, reflect, ponder || believe, feel, consider, deem 772787 | S 63 take v noun place, care, look, step, advantage, action, break, picture, account, risk, position, month, responsibility, course, approach misc long, away, seriously, home, deep off clothes, shoe, plane , hat, shirt, coat, jacket, glass, career out loan, ad, pocket, wallet, garbage, cigarette, trash, handkerchief, full-page on role, responsibility, meaning, task, challenge, significance, ready , importance up space, residence, position, arm, cause, slack, challenge, golf over communist , instinct , CEO remove, appropriate || grasp, grab || carry, fetch || conquer, capture || choose, select || accompany, bring || undertake, adopt || bear, stand || support, hold up || contain, hold || study, learn || consider, look at || require, need || derive, draw || presume, assume || succeed, work || subtract, deduct 670745 | 3 70 come v noun term, conclusion, minute, grip, stop, rescue, stair, me, realization, announcement , verdict, reply, fruition, knock, prominence misc from, when , here, home, next, together, along, close, forward, soon, surprise, closer, alive, clean.

6 Tomorrow up next, sun , short, graphics, empty-handed, renewal, parole out clean, support, toothpick , favor, publicly, paperback down pike, aisle, breakfast, chimney on oh , honey, aw , sweetheart back when , haunt, anytime arrive, appear, turn up || happen, occur, take place || approach, move toward, draw closer || originate, hail from, derive || reach, extend, stretch 628254 | 77 then r back, again, turn, since , until, minute , suddenly, second , pause, slowly, hesitate , first , sudden, briefly at that time, at that moment, at that point || next, afterward, subsequently || in that case, so, therefore || on the other hand, but then, then again || and, in addition, too 543977 | 84 way n adj only, best, long, different, better, easy, wrong, effective noun people, life, thing, thinking, variety , harm verb find , change, act, pave , behave, explore, clear , interpret, block, alter method, means || condition, circumstances || example, feature || custom, style || route, road || street, avenue 470401 | 91 more d than, year, much , any, million, little , information, percent, money, spend , half, nothing , lot , hour 420170 | 98 give v noun money, opportunity, birth, name, information, look, credit, sense, advice, idea, speech, rise, attention, example, choice misc away, willing , quick, extra, damn, time, freely, charitable, generously up never , hope, run, finally , willing , refuse , control, ready , fight, hit out information, award, knee , ticket, condom in finally , temptation, refuse provide, contribute || grant, bestow || impart, convey || perform, put on || devote, dedicate || yield, collapse 384503 | 105 very r much, good, well.

7 Important, difficult, little, different, hard, few, close, strong, clear, nice, interesting extremely, incredibly, awfully, exceptionally, exceedingly, especially 391821 | S 112 through i run , pass , door, walk , window, process, air, interpreter, glass, hole, crowd, gate, forest, wood across, past, throughout || during, throughout, during the course of || via, out of, by way of || because of, owing to, due to 340921 | 119 may v noun factor, transcript , finding , difficulty, symptom, adolescent, clue, indication, counselor misc able, able, although, although, suggest, suggest, cause, cause, sound, sound, contain, contain, affect, soon, affect might, could, possibly will, may well, may perhaps, may possibly 324569 | 126 still r alive, ahead, exist, large, struggle, plenty, asleep, intact, perfectly , unknown, unclear, reel, pending, infancy even now, even so, in spite of everything, be that as it may, nevertheless, nonetheless 296953 | 133 too r much, many, far, late, long, little, often, bad, soon, fast, busy also, as well, in addition, besides || excessively, overly, extremely, exceedingly 280396 | 4 140 between i difference , two, relationship , connection , distinction , relation , link , gap , correlation , significant , line, conflict , tension , interaction flanked by, sandwiched between, stuck between, amid || connecting, linking, joining, involving 264158 | A 147 family n adj whole, extended, royal, entire, poor, nuclear, immediate, wealthy, middle-class, low-income noun member, friend, child, life, history, support, parent, planning verb live, raise, own, visit, gather, feed , belong, extend, reunite, flee relations.

8 Relatives, folks || ancestors, descendants, dynasty || species, genus, type 243267 | 154 mean v noun disrespect, compliment misc really, anything, nothing, necessarily , exactly, absolutely, obviously, literally, deal, basically, harm, though , interpret , phrase, insult denote, signify, indicate || intend, propose, aim || require, lead to, necessitate 242198 | S 161 same d time, as, thing, way, much , kind, period, exactly , share , true, amount, apply, size, exact 222836 | 168 talk v noun phone, hour, politics, reporter, stranger, neighbor, me, trash, counselor, nonsense, specific, whisper, smack, pollster, headset misc about, let , listen, someone, everybody, nobody , somebody, anybody, willing , refuse , welcome , anymore, openly, loud, publicly communicate, speak, chat || converse, debate, compare notes || confess, betray, rat 229429 | S 175 might v noun possibility , clue, indication , speculation , Dr, cynic , telling , criteria , Iraqi , skeptic misc well, as, able, expect, consider, suggest, otherwise, wonder, whatever, imagine, fear, afraid, affect, worry, useful may, could, possibly will, may well, may perhaps, may possibly 209059 | 182 over r take , year, there, turn , again, walk , hand , all , shoulder, million, roll , pull , lean 208260 | 189 company n adj big, small, major, pharmaceutical, financial, foreign, holding, electric, independent, Canadian noun insurance , oil , business, stock, drug , phone , executive, employee, record, tobacco verb sell, pay, own, offer, operate, plan, found, announce, force, form business, corporation, firm || companionship, friendship, camaraderie || group, band, party || visitors, guests.

9 Friends || theater company, troupe, theater group 203345 | 196 so c can, me, OK , kind, touch, okay , mm-hmm 191893 | 203 small j noun town, group, business, number, amount, company, size, child, room, part, piece, house misc large, relatively , rural, wooden, round, chop, medium, fairly , medium-sized little, minute, tiny, diminutive || minor, unimportant, trivial, slight 185463 | 210 live v noun people , life, year, family, house, city, home, area, parent, street, poverty, town, month, writer , mile misc who , where , here, there, long, up, together out life, fantasy, dream, faith, rest, final, gospel, ideal, remainder on less, enough , legacy , memory, spirit , forever, legend , tradition in we , house, world, neighborhood, town, society, building, today exist, be alive, be in this world, survive || reside, stay, have your home, dwell 176144 | 217 happen v noun thing , accident , event , stuff , incident , miracle , tragedy , me, disaster , anytime misc something , nothing , never , again, really , next, anything , ever , whatever , bad , exactly , everything , actually occur, come about, take place, ensue || occur, come about, take place, ensue 182714 | S 5 224 must v noun teacher , educator , caution, employer , applicant , provider , plaintiff , military misc understand, consider, therefore, recognize, address, realize, admit, accept, surely, carefully, ensure, careful, aware have to, have g


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