User:Jansegers
Pieter Jansegers is a Frenchteacher from Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium. Webosoof, dictionary collector and ICT-enthusiast.
Trying to make the simple Wiktionary the perfect companion to the simple Wikipedia.
SIMPLE1540 : a simple English wikipedia word list
[change]based on the XML export of all articles related to the nine major groups: Everyday life, Geography, History, Knowledge, Language, Literature, People, Religion, and Science and retaining all word forms appearing 7 times or more in this corpus. The total number of words in this corpus is well over the 100.000 words.
a • A.D. • ability • able • about • above • absence • abstinence • abstract • academic • academy • accent • accept • access • accord • account • across • act • action • active • activity • actual • actually • ad • add • addition • adherent • adjective • adult • advance • advice • affect • after • again • against • age • agnostic • agnosticism • ago • agree • agreement • agriculture • air • alcohol • all • allow • ally • almost • alone • along • alphabet • also • although • always • amateur • amendment • among • amount • an • analysis • ancient • and • angel • animal • annals • anonymous • another • answer • anthropomorphism • any • anyone • anything • aphasia • appear • apple • apply • approach • archaeology • architecture • area • argue • argument • around • arrange • art • article • artificial • artist • ask • aspect • associate • association • astronomy • at • atheism • atheist • atomic • attack • attempt • attribute • audience • author • authority • available • average • avoid • award • away • B.C. • baby • back • background • backpack • bad • bah • balance • band • baptism • base • basic • basis • battle • BCE • be • bear • beautiful • beauty • because • become • bed • bee • before • begin • behavior • behind • being • belief • believe • believing • belong • below • best • better • between • beyond • bias • biblical • bibliography • big • billion • biological • biology • birth • bit • black • blind • blood • blue • body • book • born • both • bottom • boundary • box • boy • brain • branch • bring • brown • buffalo • build • building • bull • burn • business • but • by • c. • ca. • calendar • call • can • cancer • canon • capital • caption • car • carbon • card • carry • case • cassette • cat • category • cathedral • catholic • cause • cell • center • central • century • cerebral • certain • change • chapel • chapter • character • chemical • chemistry • child • china • China • choice • choir • choose • chronicle • church • circumcise • circumcision • cite • citizen • city • civil • civilian • civilization • claim • clan • class • classical • cleanup • clear • clergy • click • climate • close • closer • clothes • clothing • coast • coauthor • code • codex • cognitive • col • cold • collection • college • colonization • colony • color • column • com • come • commentary • commission • common • commonly • communicate • communication • communion • communist • community • companion • company • compare • competition • complete • complex • compose • composer • computer • concept • conception • concern • condition • confuse • confusion • congregational • connect • connection • conquer • conquest • consciousness • consider • consistent • constitution • construct • construction • contain • contemporary • content • context • continent • continue • contrary • control • convention • conversation • conversion • convert • cook • cooking • copy • core • correct • could • council • country • course • court • cover • covered • create • creation • credit • crime • critical • criticism • crop • cross • crust • cultural • culture • current • currently • daily • damage • dark • data • date • day • dead • death • debt • decadence • decadent • decide • declaration • decline • deconstruction • deep • define • definition • deity • demonstrate • denomination • department • depth • describe • description • design • detail • determinism • developed • development • device • devil • diagnosis • dialect • dictionary • die • difference • different • difficult • difficulty • diphthong • dipstick • direct • directly • dirt • disagree • disambiguation • disbelief • discipline • discover • discovery • discussion • disease • disorder • distance • distinct • distinction • distinguish • distribution • divide • divine • do • doctor • doctrine • document • dog • don't • door • down • Dr. • dream • drink • drown • druid • due • during • dynasty • each • earlier • early • earth • easier • easily • easy • eat • economic • economics • economy • ed • edge • edit • edition • editor • education • effect • eight • either • electric • electricity • electronic • element • elevation • else • emperor • empire • encyclopedia • end • energy • engine • engineering • enlightenment • enough • enter • entertainment • environment • environmental • epic • episode • equal • era • error • especially • establish • etc. • etymology • even • event • eventually • ever • every • everyday • everyone • everything • evidence • evil • evolution • evolve • exact • exactly • example • except • exchange • exist • existence • expansion • experience • experiment • expert • explain • explanation • express • expression • external • extinct • face • fact • failure • fair • faith • fall • false • family • famous • far • fast • father • feature • feel • feeling • female • feudal • few • fiction • field • fight • figure • file • find • finding • fire • first • fish • fit • five • fix • flow • folk • follow • food • for • force • foreign • foreskin • form • formal • former • fortune • fought • foundation • founded • four • fourth • frame • framework • free • freedom • frequently • friend • from • front • fruit • full • function • functional • further • future • gas • general • generally • generation • genre • geographer • geographic • geographical • geography • geology • geometry • germ • get • give • glass • global • go • god • gold • golden • good • government • grammar • great • greatly • green • ground • group • grow • growth • guide • guillotine • hair • half • hall • hand • handbook • handicap • handle • happen • happens • happiness • happy • hard • have • he • head • heading • health • hear • heat • heaven • help • hemisphere • her • here • heritage • hero • high • highly • him • himself • his • historian • historical • historiography • history • hold • holy • home • homo • hope • hot • hour • house • how • however • human • hundred • hunter • hypothesis • hysteresis • I • ice • icon • idea • identify • identity • if • illiteracy • illiterate • illusory • image • importance • important • impossible • improve • in • inc. • incense • include • increase • indeed • independence • independent • indigenous • individual • industrial • industry • influence • information • inquiry • inside • instead • institute • institution • instrument • instrumentation • intellectual • intelligence • interlinear • internal • international • internet • interpretation • into • introduce • introduction • invent • invention • involve • iron • island • issue • it • IT • itself • job • join • journal • journalism • judge • just • keep • key • kill • kind • king • kingdom • know • knowledge • la • LA • label • lack • lake • lamp • land • landlocked • landscape • language • large • last • late • later • law • lead • leader • leap • learn • learned • least • leave • legacy • legal • legend • let • letter • level • lexeme • library • life • light • lightning • like • likely • limited • line • linguistic • linguistics • link • liquid • list • literacy • literary • literature • little • liturgy • live • local • location • logic • logical • long • longer • look • lord • lore • lose • lot • love • low • lower • mac • machine • magazine • magic • magnetic • magnum • mail • main • mainly • major • make • male • mammal • man • mankind • manuscript • many • map • march • March • mark • market • mass • material • mathematical • mathematics • matter • may • May • me • mean • meaning • meant • measure • measurement • meat • median • medical • medicine • medieval • mediterranean • medium • meet • member • memory • men • mental • mention • mercury • message • metal • method • mid • middle • might • migrate • migration • military • millennium • million • mind • minister • minute • misconception • miss • model • modern • modernism • modernist • moment • money • monologue • monophthong • month • monument • moon • moral • morality • more • morning • most • mostly • mother • mount • mountain • mouth • move • movement • much • museum • music • musical • musicians • must • my • myth • mythology • name • narrative • nation • national • nationality • native • natural • naturalism • naturally • nature • near • nearly • necessarily • necessary • need • negative • neither • neologism • network • neurogenesis • neuron • neuroscience • never • new • news • newspaper • next • night • nine • no • non • none • nor • normal • normally • not • note • nothing • noun • novel • now • nuclear • number • object • objective • objectivity • observation • observe • occupation • occur • ocean • octane • of • off • offer • office • official • officially • often • oil • old • older • on • once • one • online • only • open • opera • opposite • or • oral • orbit • order • org • organization • organize • origin • original • originally • orthography • orthology • other • others • our • out • outer • outside • over • own • oxygen • p. • pack • pagan • page • paint • palace • paper • paradigm • parent • parish • park • part • participant • particular • particularly • party • pas • pass • past • pasta • pattern • pay • peace • peer • penguin • penis • people • per • percent • percentage • perception • performance • perhaps • period • peroxide • persecution • person • personal • personality • perspective • persuasion • pet • phenomenon • philosopher • philosophical • philosophy • phoneme • phonetic • phonetics • photo • phrase • physic • physical • picture • piece • pilgrimage • place • plan • planet • plant • plat • plate • play • please • poem • poems • poet • poetry • point • pole • police • policy • political • politics • polytheism • polytheistic • popular • population • position • positive • possession • possible • possibly • post • power • powerful • pp. • practical • practice • praise • pray • prayer • precise • predict • prediction • prehistory • present • preserve • press • prevent • priest • primary • principle • print • printing • private • probably • problem • process • produce • product • production • professional • program • project • pronounce • pronunciation • proof • property • prophet • propose • prose • proselytism • protection • protein • provide • province • psychological • psychology • public • publication • publish • publisher • publishing • punishment • pure • purpose • put • pyramid • quantum • question • quickly • quite • quote • race • racial • rack • radiation • radio • rain • range • rate • rather • read • reader • real • realism • reality • really • reason • receive • recent • recently • reclamation • recognize • record • recreation • red • ref • refer • reference • referred • reform • reformation • regard • region • reign • rejection • relate • relation • relationship • relatively • relativity • reliable • relic • religion • religious • remain • remember • remove • renaissance • replace • report • republic • request • require • research • researcher • resource • respect • response • result • resurrection • retrieve • return • revelation • revert • review • revision • revival • revolution • rhetoric • rich • right • rise • ritual • river • rock • role • room • royal • rule • ruled • ruler • run • rural • sacred • sacrifice • safe • saga • sage • saint • salad • same • sample • satellite • saw • say • schizophrenia • scholar • school • science • scientific • scientist • scope • sea • search • second • secondary • section • secular • see • seek • seem • selection • self • sense • sent • sentence • separate • sequence • series • service • set • seven • several • sexual • shall • shaman • shape • share • she • short • should • show • shrine • side • sign • significant • silence • similar • simple • simply • since • single • situation • six • size • skill • skin • slavery • sleep • slightly • slow • small • smell • smith • snake • so • social • society • sociology • soft • soil • solar • soldier • solid • soliloquy • some • someone • something • sometimes • song • soon • sortable • sound • source • space • speak • speaker • special • specie • specific • speech • speed • spell • spirit • spiritual • spirituality • split • sport • spread • square • st. • stage • stain • standard • star • start • state • statement • station • statistic • statistical • statue • status • stick • still • stone • stop • story • strange • strap • strong • structure • struggle • stub • student • study • stutter • style • subject • successful • such • sugar • suggest • sun • sung • sunlight • superior • superiority • supernatural • support • suppose • supreme • sure • surface • survey • surveyor • sushi • sustainability • sustainable • sweat • symbol • symbolic • system • table • take • talk • tam • tan • task • teach • teacher • teaching • technique • technology • tectonics • teeth • tell • temperature • template • temple • ten • term • terminology • territory • tertiary • test • testament • text • textual • than • thank • that • the • their • theism • them • themselves • then • theology • theoretical • theory • therapy • there • therefore • thesaurus • these • they • thick • thing • think • third • this • those • though • thought • thousand • three • through • throughout • thumb • thus • ticket • tight • time • title • to • today • together • toilet • tolerance • toleration • tongue • too • tool • top • topic • total • towards • tower • trade • tradition • traditional • train • translation • transport • travel • treat • treatment • tree • trench • trial • tribe • tried • trig • true • truth • try • turn • twentieth • twenty • two • type • typical • typically • ultimate • ultraviolet • under • understand • understood • union • unit • united • universal • universe • university • unknown • unsortable • until • up • upon • upper • urban • urbanization • usage • use • useful • usually • valley • value • van • vandalism • various • vassal • vegetable • verb • verbal • verse • version • very • video • view • violence • virgin • visit • vitamin • vocabulary • voice • vol. • volume • vowel • vs. • wale • wall • want • war • warm • warmer • wash • waste • water • wave • way • we • weak • wealth • wear • weather • web • website • weight • well • what • when • where • whether • which • while • white • who • whole • whom • whose • why • wide • widely • wild • wilderness • will • window • wisdom • wise • witch • witchcraft • with • within • without • witness • woman • word • work • worker • world • worship • would • write • writer • writing • wrong • yam • year • yellow • you • young • your
China, March and May made this list because china, march and may are on it and I didn't want to decide in favor of the common noun or the proper noun; all other proper nouns have been omitted (even the ten other months that met the criterium of appearing more then 6 times).
Some of these words are rather rare by most standards, especially these 217 words:
abstinence •
accent •
adherent •
adjective •
agnostic •
agnosticism •
alphabet •
annals •
anthropomorphism •
aphasia •
atheism •
atheist •
attribute •
backpack •
bah •
BCE •
behavior •
believing •
bias •
bibliography •
ca. •
canon •
cassette •
cathedral •
cerebral •
choir •
chronicle •
circumcise •
clan •
cleanup •
click •
coauthor •
codex •
cognitive •
col •
colonization •
com •
commentary •
confuse •
connect •
conquer •
conquest •
crust •
decadence •
decadent •
deconstruction •
deity •
denomination •
determinism •
developed •
dialect •
diphthong •
dipstick •
disagree •
disambiguation •
disbelief •
disorder •
drown •
druid •
dynasty •
easier •
ed •
elevation •
enlightenment •
etymology •
evolve •
extinct •
feudal •
foreskin •
genre •
geographer •
geographic •
grammar •
guillotine •
handbook •
handicap •
happens •
historiography •
homo •
hysteresis •
icon •
illiteracy •
illiterate •
illusory •
inc. •
incense •
indigenous •
instrumentation •
interlinear •
internet •
invent •
landlocked •
legacy •
lexeme •
linguistic •
linguistics •
literacy •
liturgy •
lore •
mac •
mammal •
manuscript •
median •
mediterranean •
mercury •
migrate •
migration •
millennium •
misconception •
modernism •
modernist •
monologue •
monophthong •
musicians •
mythology •
nationality •
naturalism •
neologism •
neurogenesis •
neuron •
neuroscience •
noun •
objectivity •
octane •
officially •
online •
org •
orthography •
orthology •
pagan •
paradigm •
participant •
pas •
pasta •
penis •
peroxide •
persecution •
persuasion •
phoneme •
phonetic •
phonetics •
physic •
pilgrimage •
plat •
poems •
polytheism •
polytheistic •
pp. •
prediction •
prehistory •
pronounce •
pronunciation •
proselytism •
quantum •
rack •
reclamation •
ref •
referred •
reformation •
reign •
relatively •
relativity •
relic •
researcher •
resurrection •
retrieve •
revert •
revision •
revival •
rhetoric •
saga •
sage •
schizophrenia •
shaman •
shrine •
soliloquy •
sortable •
specie •
spirituality •
strap •
stub •
stutter •
surveyor •
sushi •
sustainability •
sustainable •
tam •
tan •
tectonics •
template •
terminology •
tertiary •
textual •
theism •
thesaurus •
tolerance •
toleration •
topic •
trench •
trig •
typically •
ultraviolet •
unsortable •
urbanization •
vandalism •
vassal •
verb •
vol. •
vowel •
vs. •
wale •
warmer •
web •
website •
witch •
witchcraft •
yam
I've linked those in this list to the standard English Wiktionary.