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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 -- $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
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.
Other frequency lists are available from www.wordfrequency.info. 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.
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.
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.
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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
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 56 think v
noun •bed, •bathroom, •mile, •nut, •berserk, jail misc noun people, thing, lot, reason, moment, mistake,
•through, let•, •home, •away, •happen, •ahead, •beyond, nonsense, coincidence, retrospect misc I•, you, do•, we,
•sleep, •anywhere, •crazy •about, what, well, really, •important, maybe, probably,
on what•, •inside, list•, •forever, hell•, fighting•, •length, ever, everybody, anybody, frankly
•usual, heck•, •indefinitely off bomb•, alarm•, siren•, through •problem, carefully, •consequence,
beeper•, bulb•, pager•, •tangent, firework•, flashbulb•, •implication, •situation, opportunity• up •idea, •name,
firecracker• back let•, •home, •forth, •sleep, •inside, •excuse, whoever•, clever, •creative back when, •over
•upstairs, •downstairs, •jail up •flame, •smoke, curtain•, ● reason, contemplate, reflect, ponder || believe, feel,
cheer•, eyebrow•, •dramatically, roar•, consider, deem
•chimney down sun•, •tube, swelling•, •breakfast, 772787 | 0.91 S
Titanic out •dinner, •public, party, breakfast
● leave, go away || travel, move || work, run || reach, 63 take v
extend || become, get || die, pass away noun •place, •care, •look, •step, •advantage, action,
1151045 | 0.93 S •break, picture, •account, •risk, position, month,
•responsibility, •course, approach misc long, •away,
42 her a •seriously, home, •deep
she, •she, hand, mother, •eye, •husband, •own, •head, off •clothes, •shoe, plane•, •hat, •shirt, •coat, •jacket,
tell•, •face, •father, hair, arm, •daughter •glass, career• out •loan, •ad, pocket, •wallet, •garbage,
969591 | 0.91 F •cigarette, •trash, •handkerchief, •full-page on •role,
•responsibility, •meaning, •task, •challenge,
49 as i •significance, ready•, •importance up •space, •residence,
well, such•, much•, long•, such•, far•, same•, •result, •position, •arm, •cause, •slack, •challenge,
•part, •though, soon•, serve•, •possible, describe• •golf over communist•, instinct•, •CEO
● in the role of, in the function of, having the status of, ● remove, appropriate || grasp, grab || carry, fetch ||
being conquer, capture || choose, select || accompany, bring
829018 | 0.95 || 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 | 0.97
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70 come v 98 give v
noun •term, •conclusion, minute, •grip, •stop, •rescue, noun money, •opportunity, •birth, name, information,
•stair, me, •realization, announcement•, verdict, reply, •look, •credit, •sense, advice, •idea, speech, •rise,
•fruition, knock, •prominence misc •from, when•, •here, attention, •example, •choice misc •away, willing•, •quick,
•home, next, •together, •along, •close, •forward, soon, •extra, •damn, •time, freely, charitable, generously
•surprise, •closer, •alive, •clean, tomorrow up never•, •hope, •run, finally•, willing•, refuse•,
up •next, sun•, •short, graphics, •empty-handed, •control, ready•, •fight, •hit out •information, award,
•renewal, •parole out •clean, •support, toothpick•, knee•, ticket, •condom in finally•, •temptation, refuse•
•favor, •publicly, paperback down •pike, •aisle, ● provide, contribute || grant, bestow || impart,
•breakfast, •chimney on oh•, honey, aw•, convey || perform, put on || devote, dedicate || yield,
•sweetheart back when•, •haunt, •anytime collapse
● arrive, appear, turn up || happen, occur, take place 384503 | 0.98
|| approach, move toward, draw closer || originate,
hail from, derive || reach, extend, stretch 105 very r
628254 | 0.95 •much, •good, •well, •important, •difficult, •little,
•different, •hard, •few, •close, •strong, •clear, •nice,
77 then r •interesting
back, again, •turn, since•, until, minute•, •suddenly, ● extremely, incredibly, awfully, exceptionally,
second•, pause, •slowly, hesitate•, first•, •sudden, exceedingly, especially
briefly 391821 | 0.92 S
● at that time, at that moment, at that point || next,
afterward, subsequently || in that case, so, therefore 112 through i
|| on the other hand, but then, then again || and, in run•, pass•, •door, walk•, •window, process, air,
addition, too •interpreter, •glass, hole, •crowd, •gate, •forest, •wood
543977 | 0.95 ● across, past, throughout || during, throughout,
during the course of || via, out of, by way of ||
84 way n because of, owing to, due to
adj only, best, long, different, better, easy, wrong, 340921 | 0.98
effective noun people, life, thing, •thinking, variety•,
harm• verb find•, change, act, pave•, behave, explore, 119 may v
clear•, interpret, block, alter noun factor, transcript•, finding•, difficulty, symptom,
● method, means || condition, circumstances || adolescent, clue, indication, counselor• misc able, able,
example, feature || custom, style || route, road || although, although, suggest, suggest, cause, cause,
street, avenue sound, sound, contain, contain, affect, soon, affect
470401 | 0.98 ● might, could, possibly will, may well, may perhaps,
may possibly
91 more d 324569 | 0.95
•than, •year, much•, any, •million, little•, •information,
percent, •money, spend•, •half, nothing•, lot•, •hour 126 still r
420170 | 0.97 •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 | 0.97
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 | 0.96
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•grandchildren, orphan, caregiver•, hospice misc do•, •politics out •hair, cigarette, •match
1435 hey u
say•, •guy, •wait, thank, •listen, •minute, •thanks, •baby,
yell, •buddy, •dad, hi, •mom
27659 | 0.91 F
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2583 general r
in•, •particular, •tend, •specifically, general, culturally,
given
13256 | 0.92 A
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3521 T-shirt n
adj white, black, blue, red, baggy, faded, gray, green,
tight, yellow noun jeans, short, pant, cap, cotton•, hat,
jacket, shirt, •shop, sneakers verb wear•, sell•, •read,
pull, buy•, dress•, print, •bear, •hang, feature
8386 | 0.94
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3598 southwest n
adj American, rural, arid, far, ancient, dry, extreme
noun mile•, •airline, •conference, state, •corner, center,
city, •side, area, desert• verb locate•, fly, lie•, head,
travel•, situate•, shift•, •resume
8190 | 0.93
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8099 specially r
•design, •train, •build, •construct, •equip, •formulate,
create, •designated, •prepared, •commission, treat,
•dog, order, •prepare
● particularly, in particular, especially, specifically ||
personally, individually, to order
2189 | 0.95
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16338 triumphantly r
smile•, announce, hold, return•, march, grin•, raise•,
stand•, •aloft, wave, shout•, rise•, •above, carry
● proudly, victoriously, gloriously, exultantly, jubilantly,
elatedly
631 | 0.89 F
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