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Memorizing English vocabulary is a necessary step to speak English. Designed for school or personal use, these English words lists allows you to enrich your vocabulary in a targeted and effective way.
Each lesson contains hundreds of English words that you can memorize easily, classified and indexed into different themes of daily life to cover all the most used and most common vocabulary in English: family, geography, sport, professions, media, travel and everyday topics…
This page will be useful both as part of individual learning whether you are a student, traveller or professional, and as a complement to school work.
All the words lists on this page are free to download in PDF so you will always have at hand a simple and concise reference tool to find the right word in all circumstances. You will need to use a dictionary to search for the meaning of words you don’t already know. With the help of those lists, you will be able to understand words that you do not know from their context, and thus enrich your vocabulary even more as you go along.
If you are teaching or learning ESL, you can use those essential English vocabulary lists to help you in your lessons. You can also use these words lists if you are preparing for the IELTS exam.
English vocabulary list (include free PDF)
- Domestic animals and farm animals
- Zoo animals
- The birds
- The insects
- Aquatic animals
- Nature
- Feelings and emotions
- The environment
- Hospitality
- Clothing
- Transportation
- The family
- Politics & Government
- Travel & tourism
- The human body
- Physical description: the face
- Health and Medicine
- The astrological signs
- Halloween
- Business
- Fruits and vegetables
- The Weather
- Movies & cinema
- Christmas
- The House
- Real estate
- Marketing
- Finance
- IT & internet
- Job interview
- Immigration
- Sciences
- Journalism & press
- Good and bad qualities
- Money and banking
- Photography
- The religion
- The five senses
- Love and wedding
- Beach and seaside
- War and peace
- History and past
- Sport
- Cycling
- Trains and railways
- Trees, plants and gardening
- Mythology and heroes
- Music
- Hobbies
- The city
- Architecture and construction
- Bathroom items
- Education and school
- Soccer
- Wine
- Kitchen utensils
- Routine & daily life
- Communication
- Food & nutrition
- Gestures and positions
- Personality: character and behavior
- Astronomy, space and universe
- Natural disasters
- Accidents and injuries
- Crimes
- The quantities
- List of jobs in English
- Expressing opinion
- At the airport
- Logistics
- Food & drinks
- Linking words
- Accounting
- Materials
- Law and Legal terms
- Business and Economics
- Useful adjectives (A to C)
- Useful adjectives (D to H)
- Useful adjectives (I to O)
- Useful adjectives (P to S)
- Useful adjectives (T to Z)
- 100 most common Phrasal verbs list
- List of adverbs
- 100 most used English verbs
- 100 English verbs of body movement and action
- 100 most common English adverbs
Download English word lists free of charge
a selection of word lists sorted by frequency
All word lists were generated from a huge multi-billion sample of language called a corpus which ensures all topics and text types are covered and the word list reflects how words are used by real users. The word lists include the most common and frequently used words, most frequently used nouns, verbs, adjectives and prepositions and some additional word lists.
How are different forms of the same word counted?
All wordlists are lemmatized (=different forms of the same words are counted together, i.e. goes, went, gone, going and go are counted together and listed as go). This is generally more practical. However, sometimes non-lemmatized word lists listing each word form separately are needed. Sketch Engine can generate both types of word lists.
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I want longer word lists!
Longer English word lists of the most frequent and common words can be generated with Sketch Engine. There is no limit for word lists generated from user corpora, however, there is a limit of 1,000 items for word lists generated from preloaded corpora. The user can produce any number of word lists. Advanced filtering criteria using regex can be applied so that the word list contains exactly what the user needs. Register for a free trial account with Sketch Engine to generate longer word lists in English.
A list of all words in English
Unlimited word lists from preloaded corpora, e.g. a list of all words in English, can be generated from our multi-billion word English corpora.
Please refer to this page to get information about English word lists for commercial use.
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Kings of B’More
When sixteen-year-old Harrison Meredith finds out that his best friend Linus Munro is moving away, he plans a surprise…
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Far AwayLisa Graff
When twelve-year-old Caraway June Ames learns that she may lose the connection to her mom’s spirit in Far Away, she…
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You Go FirstErin Entrada Kelly
Twelve-year old Charlotte Lockard lives in Pennsylvania while eleven-year-old Benjamin Boxer lives in Louisiana, but…
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Katt vs. DoggJames Patterson and Chris Grabenstein
Molly the katt and Oscar the dogg belong to different families who hiss and growl at each other, but when they both get…
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A Snicker of MagicNatalie Lloyd
Twelve-year-old Felicity Juniper Pickle, with the help of a mysterious Beedle, tries to bring magic back to the town of…
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Unequal: A Story of AmericaMichael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau
In this nonfiction story of America, the authors recount the struggles of key African Americans in the country’s march…
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Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?Patricia McKissack
This biography chronicles the life of Sojourner Truth, a woman who was born a slave, and who became the embodiment of…
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Society and SolitudeRalph Waldo Emerson
In this collection of twelve essays, the leader of New England’s transcendentalist movement shares his philosophical…
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Common SenseThomas Paine
In this pamphlet, Paine urges the American colonists to fight for independence from Great Britain and form a new…
Ramadan
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, when Muhammad’s first revelation of the Quran is…
20 Words
Holi Festival
Holi – the Festival of Colors, Festival of Spring, and Festival of Love – is one of the most popular…
20 Words
List Of English Words
A text file containing over 466k English words.
While searching for a list of english words (for an auto-complete tutorial)
I found: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2213607/how-to-get-english-language-word-database which refers to https://www.infochimps.com/datasets/word-list-350000-simple-english-words-excel-readable (archived).
No idea why infochimps put the word list inside an excel (.xls) file.
I pulled out the words into a simple new-line-delimited text file.
Which is more useful when building apps or importing into databases etc.
Copyright still belongs to them.
Files you may be interested in:
- words.txt contains all words.
- words_alpha.txt contains only [[:alpha:]] words (words that only have letters, no numbers or symbols). If you want a quick solution choose this.
- words_dictionary.json contains all the words from words_alpha.txt as json format.
If you are using Python, you can easily load this file and use it as a dictionary for faster performance. All the words are assigned with 1 in the dictionary.
See read_english_dictionary.py for example usage.
On this page you’ll find a downloadable list of common English words that I created that are free for you to use.
I had this brilliant concept that needed a tag style search engine. Only the idea wasn’t brilliant so now I just have a list of common English words. Basically a list of Stop Words.
This list of words includes articles, conjunctions, prepositions, and contractions — the parts of the English language that don’t get capitalized in headlines when using title case.
I created the list by analyzing a whole bunch of online news articles using a script I wrote. This allowed me to quickly generate a pretty good list of the most commonly used words in the eglish vocabulary.
I’m sure there’s a few words that you’ll want to add to the list but it should be a pretty good starting point if you need a stop words list.
The contractions list contains some words that aren’t, strictly speaking, contractions and some very archaic text contractions which you might want to edit out depending on your purposes.
If you use any of the downloads, it would be nice if you could provide a link back to this site. But I’m not going to insist on it since I’m not that pushy and
you never listen to me anyways 