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Frequency Lists for teachers/researchers     DEADHEADED Apr 2020    

UPDATE: ALL VP LISTS ARE AVAILABLE WITH DESCRIPTIONS AT VP-COMPLEAT INPUT HERE (TOP RIGHT)

English

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
    & ReadMe

Brezina & Gablasova's NGSL and paper

 

Web VP / BNC-20 v 3.2

British National Corpus lists version

See first 14 lists here , and last 6 here ,

 

KIDS! 10x250-word Kid Lists

PHRASES! Martinez' BNC-5k Phrase Lists

JACET8000 (from Japan Assn. of College English Teachers)

  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
... has many French
lists here
English Others

Longman LDOCE Defining Vocab
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..>
(Now run by Martin Weisser)

 

 

GSL (1000 and 2000) lists thanks to Rob Waring, AWL to Averil Coxhead; French lists grace à Thierry Selva, Glyn Jones & Robin Goodfellow.