List of English Words
What is list of English Words?
Basically, language experts and researchers recommend that any English language learner must know important words, words which occur very often in English texts and spoken language.
General Service List of English words (West, 1953). Many western researchers share a common consensus that the high frequency 2,000 words account for 85% and more, written words in any text.
List of English words for ESL learners contains most common words used in English. However, these basic English words you must know in depth and breadth not mere definition. As an example, word able and ability belong together,
Able as an adjective has many usages like a) Able bodied, An able man, Able to take care of
Ability as noun also has many uses like a) A Man of great ability ( cleverness), Musical ability, (Power) ability to learn
Therefore, before passing these words as simple and ordinary make sure you know them thoroughly in different forms and senses before you move on to High Frequency Word List 2 and Academic Vocabulary in Academic Word List
Knowledge of these words will help you for better reading comprehension and faster reading. And, who says this?
Please read this page about the validity of High Frequency Word Lists. In short, these words are listed in
List of Words as mentioned in High Frequency Word List 1
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A
Able
About
Above
Accept
Accord
Account
Across
Act
Actual
Add
Address
Admit
Adopt
Advance
Advantage
Affair
Afford
After
Again
Against
Age
Ago
Agree
Air
All
Allow
Almost
Alone
Along
Already
Also
Although
Always
Among
Amount
Ancient
And
Animal
Another
Answer
Any
Appear
Apply
Appoint
Arise
Arm
Army
Around
Arrive
Art
Article
As
Ask
Association
At
Attack
Attempt
Average
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B Back
Bad
Ball
Bank
Bar
Base
Battle
Be
Bear
Beauty
Because
Become
Bed
Before
Begin
Behind
Being
Believe
Belong
Below
Beneath
Beside
Best
Better
Between
Beyond
Big
Bill
Bird
Bit
Black
Blood
Blow
Blue
Board
Boat
Body
Book
Born
Both
Box
Boy
Branch
Bread
Breadth
Break
Bridge
Bright
Bring
Brother
Build
Burn
Business
But
Buy
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C
Call
Can
Capital
Car
Care
Carry
Case
Catch
Cause
Centre
Certain
Chance
Change
Character
Charge
Chief
Child
Choose
Church
Circle
City
Claim
Class
Clean
Clear
Clock
Close
Club
Coast
Cold
College
Colour
Come
Command
Common
Company
Compare
Complete
Concern
Condition
Connect
Consider
Contain
Content
Continue
Control
Corner
Cost
Could
Council
Count
Country
Course
Court
Cover
Creature
Cross
Crowd
Cry
Current
Custom
Cut
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D
Dance
Danger
Dare
Dark
Date
Daughter
Day
Dead
Deal
Decide
Declare
Deep
Degree
Deliver
Demand
Describe
Desert
Desire
Destroy
Detail
Determine
Develop
Die
Difference
Difficult
Direct
Discover
Disease
Distance
Distinguish
District
Divide
Do
Doctor
Dog
Door
Double
Doubt
Down
Draw
Dream
Dress
Drive
Drop
Dry
Due
During
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