Wiktionary:Frequency lists/English

English Frequency Lists

• Most Common Words from English Wikipedia (2016)
• Most common words based off TV and movie scripts (2006)
• Most common English words in Project Gutenberg (2006, 2005)
• The 2,000 most common words in contemporary fiction. The same list is also available divided into 60 subject categories.
• The 2,000 most common words in contemporary poetry.
• Complete Shakespeare wordlist (with modernised spellings)
• Appendix:Basic English word list
• Simple:Wikipedia:Basic English combined wordlist
• Academic Word List by word family: see the simple:Wiktionary:Academic word list on Simple English Wiktionary.

External Links

• Word frequency lists for English and other languages from 10K up to 1M, available for download as part of the Leipzig Corpora Collection ^{(CC BY-4.0)}
• 3 word lists for English on LingoJam
• 50K and larger word lists based on www.opensubtitles.org for English and other languages ^{(CC BY-SA-4.0)}
• Frequency lists for English and other languages derived from corpora assembled by Leeds University's Centre for Translation Studies ^{(CC BY-2.5)}
• Frequency list of lemmas derived from an internet corpus assembled by Leeds University's Centre for Translation Studies ^{(CC BY-2.5)}
• Frequency lists for learners of English and other languages available as part of the Kelly project. ^{(CC BY-ND-NC-SA 2.0)}
• Wikipedia word frequency list (2023) ^{(MIT License)}
• Open English WordNet ^{(CC BY-4.0)}
• British National Corpus - most frequent word families: see the simple:Wiktionary:BNC spoken freq on Simple English Wiktionary.
• Adam Kilgariff's BNC database and word frequency lists.]
• 5000 frequency dictionary based on all episodes of The Simpsons
• Top 5,000 lemma and the top 60,000 lemma sampled every 7th word from the COCA corpus (the largest and most up-to-date corpus on American English based on written and spoken English)
• A Common English Lexical Framework, aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2) in a CLIL context.[1] See research base.[2]
• Vocabulary profiler using the 2,709 most commonly used word families, covering 90% of most English texts (excluding proper nouns) at http://lextutor.ca/vp/bnl See http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2008.08.001 for research base.
• The most frequent words from books

Further reading

• Brezina, Vaclav, and Dana Gablasova. A Frequency Dictionary of British English: Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learners. Routledge, 2024.
• Davies, Mark, and Dee Gardner. A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates and Thematic Lists. Routledge, February 2010.