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  2. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    The number of distinct senses that are listed in Wiktionary is shown in the polysemy column. For example, "out" can refer to an escape, a removal from play in baseball, or any of 36 other concepts. On average, each word in the list has 15.38 senses. The sense count does not include the use of terms in phrasal verbs such as "put out" (as in ...

  3. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of English words with disputed usage. List of English–Spanish interlingual homographs. List of ethnic slurs. List of generic and genericized trademarks. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English. List of self-contradicting words in English. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year. Most common words in English.

  4. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/5000 most common words

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    These are 5000 of the most common words in American English in order of usage. This can be a particularly useful list when starting to learn a new language and will help prioritise creating sentences using the words in other languages to ensure that you develop your core quickly. This process will be sped up if creating sentences using multiple ...

  5. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [37][38] A dictionary of orthography. Contains 253,000 entries (253,000 words). [44][45] Nine volumes of this dictionary were printed in years 1935–1957.

  6. Word list - Wikipedia

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    Word list. A word list (or lexicon) is a list of a language's lexicon (generally sorted by frequency of occurrence either by levels or as a ranked list) within some given text corpus, serving the purpose of vocabulary acquisition. A lexicon sorted by frequency "provides a rational basis for making sure that learners get the best return for ...

  7. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/Word list - Top 1000 words ...

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  8. Longest word in English - Wikipedia

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    The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).

  9. Category:Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    A. Academic Word List. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom. List of animal names. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words. List of homophonic abbreviations. English auxiliary verbs.