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Lists used on Lextutor Classic GSL 1000_families.txt 39k GSL 1000_heads.txt 9k GSL 2000_families.txt 36k GSL 2000_heads.txt 7k AWL_heads.txt 5k AWL_families.txt 37k AWL_families_sublists.doc 37k Paul Meara's Plausible Non-Words James Dickins' freq-by-sense GSL     and ReadMe Doc (new copy Apr 2012)	Web VP / BNC-20 v 3.2 British National Corpus lists version (Beta) [LISTS UNDER REVISION - See first 14 lists here , and last 6 lists here ,	French Lists used on Lextutor (families) basewrd1_f.txt 121k basewrd2_f.txt 185k basewrd3_f.txt 1906k Baudot.doc 83k Français fondamental FF1.txt 9k || FF2.txt 15k Lexique.org from Paris V Huge French lists collection Downloads	English Others Longman LDOCE Defining Vocab NEW Longman "Communication 3000" Brown Corpus list (text) 525k as text file (alpha sort) Brown Corpus list (Excel) 2.5M as Excel file (resortable) Ogden's 'Basic Engish' "90% of the dictionary's concepts can be expressed in 850 words..." Lists based on Brit Nat Corpus From U. Lancaster From Paul Nation David Lee's site for Links to many more lists..>

Where do Lextutor lists come from?
English 1000 and 2000 lists are versions of West's (1953) General Service List (See Baumann& Culligan); AWL was produced by Averil Coxhead (link below). Development of French lists is discussed by Cobb & Horst (2004)