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Add topicThis is the one of the 14 1000-word-family lists from the count of the British National Corpus (BNC) compiled by Paul Nation.
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BNC1 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed BNC2 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed BNC3 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed BNC4 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed |
Headword List
[change]A
[change]- a an
- able ability abler ablest ably abilities unable inability
- about absolutely absolutist absolutists acceptability acceptable
- account accounted accounting accounts
- achieve achievable unachievable achieved
- across
- act acted acting action inaction actions
- active
- actual actually
- add added adding addition
- address addressed addresses addressing addressee addressees
- admit admission admissions
- advertise advertising advertises affected affecting affects
- afford afforded affording affords affordable unaffordable
- after afterward afterwards afternoons
- against
- age aged ages aging
- agent agency agencies agents
- ago
- agree agreed agreeing agreement agreements agrees
- all
- almost
- along
- already
- alright
- also
- although
- America American Americans
- amount amounted amounting amounts
- and
- answer answered
- any anybody anyhow anymore anyone anything anyway anywhere
- apart
- apparent
- appear appearance appeared appearing appears appearances reappear reappears reappeared reappearing
- apply application applications applied applies
- appoint appoints appointed appointing appointments appointment reappoint reappointed reappointing
- approach
- appropriate
- area areas
- argue arguing argues argued armed arms
- around
- arrange arranged arranging arranges arts artist
- as asked
- associate associates associated associating
- assume assumed assumes assuming assumption assumptions
- at
- attend attends attending attended
- authority
- available
- aware
- awful
B
[change]babies
- back backed backing backs backbone backwards backward badly
- bag bags bagging bagged baggage
- balance balancing balances balanced
- ball banked
- bar bars barred
- base based
- basis am are
- bear bearing
- beat beats beating
- beauty
- because
- become became becomes becoming bedroom bedrooms bedroomed bedding bedded beds
- before began beginner beginners beginning beginnings begins begun
- believe believed believes believing
- benefit
- best better
- bet betting bets
- between bigger bills billed billing
- birth births birthdays
- bit bits blacker blackest
- bloke blokes
- blow blew blowing blows blown
- board boarded boarding boards
- boat boats boated boating bodies books
- both bothered bothering bothers bottling bottles bottled
- bottom bottoms bottomed bottoming
- box boxes
- boy
- break breaking
- brief briefed briefing
- brilliant bringing brings
- Britain British brothers
- budget builder
- business businesses
- but bought buying buys
- by
C
[change]caked caking cakes called calling calls
- can cannot cars
- card cards
- care cared
- carry carried
- case cases cats
- catch catches catching
- cause caused causes causing
- cent cents
- centre center
- certain certainly chairs chaired chairing
- chairman chairmen
- change changed changes changing
- chap chaps
- character characteristic
- charge charged
- check checks checking checked children childish childhood childless
- choice choices
- choose chooses choosing chose chosen
- Christ Christian Christians Christianity
- Christmas Christmases churches cities
- claim claimed claiming claims cleaned cleaner
- clear cleared clearer clearest clearing
- client clients
- clock clocks
- closes closed
- clothe clothed clothing
- club clubbed clubbing clubs coffees colder coldest
- colleague colleagues
- collect collects collecting collected colleges
- colour color colored came comes coming
- comment
- commit commitment commitments commits committed
- committee committees
- common commoner commoners commonest commonly
- community communities companies
- compare comparable
- complete completed
- compute
- concern concerned concerning concerns
- condition
- confer conference
- consider
- consult
- contact
- continue contracted contracting
- control controlled
- converse converses conversed conversing cooks cooking
- copy copying copies copied copier copiers
- corner corners cornered cornering
- correct corrects costing
- could
- council counted countries
- county counties coupled uncoupled coupling couples
- course courses courts
- cover covered covering coverings
- create created creates creating creation creations creative
- cross crossed crosses crossing cups cupping cupped
- current currents currently
- cut cuts cutting cuttings
D
[change]- dad daddy dads
- danger
- date dates dated daily daylight days
- dead
- deal
- dear dearer dearest
- debate
- decide decided
- decision decisions
- deep deepen
- definite definitely degrees
- department departments
- depend depends depended depending
- describe described describes
- design designed
- detail detailed detailing details
- develop developed
- die died dies dying
- difference differences different differently difficulties difficulty dinners
- direct directed
- discuss discussing discusses discussed
- district districts
- divide divided divides dividing did doctors
- document dogs doors indoors
- double doubled doubles doubling
- doubt doubted
- down downs drawing drawings drawn dressed dresses dressing drinks driven
- drop dropped dropping
- dry dried dries driest dryer drying
- due
- during
E
[change]- e
- each earlier earliest eastward eastwards easier easiest ate eaten
- economy economic
- educate educating educates educated
- effect effected effecting effective eggs
- eight eighteen
- either
- elect elected
- electric electricity electricians electrician electrical
- eleven elevens
- else elsewhere
- employ employed employee employees
- encourage ended
- engine engines engineering engineers engineered
- English
- enjoy enjoyed enjoying entered
- equal
- especial especially
- Europe European Europeans
- even evenings
- every everyday everyone everything everywhere
- evidence
- exact exactly
- example examples exception
- excuse
- exercise exercised exercises exercising
- exist existed existence existing exists
- expect
- expense expenses
- experience experienced experiences experiencing inexperienced
- explain explained
- express
- extra extras
- eye eyed
F
[change]- face faced faces facing
- fact facts
- fair fairer fairest
- fall families farther farthest
- farm farmers faster fastest fathers
- favour favor
- feed fed feeding feeds
- feel feeling feelings fewer fewest
- field fields fielded fielding fighter fighters fighting fought fights
- figure figures figured figuring
- file
- fill filled
- film films filming filmed
- final
- finance finding findings finds found
- fine finished finishes finishing
- fire fires fired firing
- first firsts fished fishing
- fit
- five fives fifteen flattest flatten flattens flattened flattening floors flooring flew flown
- follow followed foods feet footed football
- for
- force forced forgets forgetting forgot forgotten
- form
- fortune fortunate
- forward forwards forwarding forwarded
- four fours
- France French freed friendly
- from
- front fronts fronting fronted fuller fullest
- fun funny
- function
- fund funded
- further furthest
- future futures
G
[change]- game games gaming gardener gardeners gardens gardening gardened
- gas gases
- general generally German Germans
- get gets getting got gotten gotta gotcha
- girl girls gal gals gave given gives giving goes going
- god gods goddess goodness
- goodbye goodbyes
- govern
- grand grandsons grandson grandparents grandparent grandpa grandpas grandmothers
- grant granted granting grants
- great greater greatest greener greenest
- ground
- group grouped grouping
- grow grew growing grown grows growth growths
- guess guessing guesses guessed
- guy guys
H
[change]hairy hairs
- half halves halfway
- hall halls handed
- hang hanged hanging hangings hangs hung
- happen happened happening happier happiest
- hard harden hardened hardening hardens harder hardest
- hate hatred hatreds hating hates hated had him himself his headed heading headings heads healthier healthiest
- hear heard hearts
- heat
- heavy heavier heaviest hells helped helpful higher highest
- hit hitting
- hold held
- holiday holidays
- home
- honest honesty
- hope horses hospitals hourly hours
- house housed housing houses
- however
- hullo hey
- hundred hundreds husbands
I
[change]- i me mine my myself
- idea ideas
- identify
- if ifs
- imagine imagining imagines imagined
- important
- improve improving improves improved
- in
- include included includes including
- income incomes
- increase increased increases increasing
- indeed
- individual
- inform informs informing informed
- inside insides
- instead
- insure insuring insures insured insurance
- interest interested interesting interests
- into
- introduce introduced introduces introducing introduction introductions
- invest invested investing investment investments
- involve involved
- issue its itself
- item
J
[change]- Jesus jobs jobless
- join joined joining joins
- judge judged judges judging judgment judgments judgement judgements judgemental
- jump jumps jumping jumped jumpy
- just justly
K
[change]- keep keeper keepers keeping keeps kept keys
- kid kids
- kill kills killed killer killers killing
- kind kings kingdom kitchens
- knock knocks knocking knocked knocker knockers knew knowing knowingly known knows unknown
L
[change]labor laboured labouring labours labored laboring labors labourer labourers laborer laborers
- lad lads
- lady ladies ladylike
- land landed landing landings lands
- language languages
- last lasted lasting lasts lately
- laugh laughs laughing laughed laws lawyer lawyers
- lay laid laying lays lain
- lead leader leaders learned learner leaves leaving lefts legs lessen lessened lessening
- let letters
- level levelled
- lie liar lighted liked likes liking
- likely likelier likeliest likelihood unlikely
- limit
- line lines lined lining
- link
- list listened littler littlest
- live lived
- load
- local
- lock
- look looked looking
- lord lords lots loved
- low
- luck lucky lunches
M
[change]- main mains mainly
- major made mankind men
- manage managing manages managers manager
- mark marked marketed marketing markets
- marry marriages married marries marrying matching matches matched
- matter mattered mattering matters
- may
- mean meaner meanest
- meaning
- measure measured measurement measurements measures meeting meetings meets met
- member members membership memberships
- mention mentioned mentioning mentions
- middle middles
- might
- mile miles
- million millions
- mind ministers
- minus minutes
- miss
- mister
- moment moneys monies monthly months
- most mothers
- motion motions
- move moved movement moves moving movements
- much musical musicals musician musicians
- must
N
[change]- name named unnamed names naming
- nation national nationals natural nearby nearer nearest nearly
- necessary
- need needed
- new newer newest
- news
- next
- nice nicest nicer
- night
- nine
- non
- none
- normal t
- note notable notes noting
- notice nowadays
- number numbered
O
[change]- obvious
- occasion
- odd odds odder oddest
- of
- off
- offer offered offering offerings offers
- office officer officers offices
- often
- okay ok older oldest
- on onto
- once
- one ones
- only opening openings
- operate operated operates operating operation operations
- opportunity opportunities
- oppose
- order ordered ordering
- organize organisation organisations organise organised
- original others
- otherwise
- ought
- out outer outside
- over
- own
P
[change]- p
- pack packs packing packed package packages packaging packaged
- page pages
- paint painted painter painters paintings paints
- pair pairs pairing paired papers papered papering
- paragraph paragraphing paragraphs
- pardon pardons pardoned pardoning
- parent parental
- park
- part parted parting
- particular particulars
- party parties
- pass passed passes passing
- past
- pay paid paying payment payments pays
- pence
- pension pensions peoples
- per
- percent
- perfect perfected perfecting
- period
- photograph photography photographs
- pick picks picking
- picture pictured pictures picturing
- piece pieces placed places placing
- plan planned
- play played player players playing plays pleasant
- plus pluses
- point pointed policing
- policy policies
- politic political poorer poorest
- position positions positioning positioned
- positive positives
- possible
- post
- pound pounds
- power powered powerful
- practise practises practised practising practice practices practicing practiced
- prepare
- present pressed
- pressure
- presume
- pretty prettier prettiest
- previous
- print printed printer printers printing prints
- private
- probable probably probability probabilities
- problem problems
- proceed processed processes processing
- produce produced
- product products productions
- programme program
- project projected projecting
- proper
- propose proposal proposals
- protect protected protecting
- provide provided provides providing
- public publicity
- pull pulled pulling pulls
- purpose purposes
- push pushing pushes pushed puts putting
Q
[change]- quality qualities
- quarter quarterly quarters
- question quickness quickly quickest quicker
- quid quids
- quiet quieter quietest quietly
- quite
R
[change]- radio radios radioed
- rail railways railway
- raise raised raises raising
- range ranged ranges ranging
- rate
- rather
- read reader readers reading
- realise realize
- really
- reason
- receive received receives receiving
- recent
- reckon reckoned reckoning reckons
- recognize recognise recognised recognises recognising
- recommend recommends recommending recommended
- record recorded redder reddest
- reduce reduced reduces reducing reduction
- refer refers referring referred
- regard
- region
- relation relate related relates relating relations relationship relationships remembered remembering remembers
- report reported
- represent representative representatives
- require required
- research
- resource
- respect respected respecting respects
- responsible
- rest rested resting restful
- result
- return returned
- rid ridding rids
- ring rang ringed ringing rings rung
- rise rises rising risen roads
- role
- roll rolled rolling rolls rooms
- round
- rule ruled
- run ran
S
[change]- safe
- sale sales
- same
- save saved
- say said
- scheme
- science sciences
- score scored scoring scores
- Scotland
- seat
- secretary
- section
- secure saw seeing
- seem seemed seeming
- self
- sell
- sense
- separate separated
- serious
- serve servant servants served
- service
- set sets setting
- settle settled settlement settlements settler settlers settles settling
- seven seventeen
- sex sexes
- shall
- share shared her hers herself sheets
- shoe shoed shoeing
- shoot shootings shoots shot
- shop shops shopping
- short
- should showed showing shown shows
- shut shutting shuts sickness
- side sides sided siding
- sign signed signing signs
- similar
- since sings sang sung
- single singled
- sir sisters
- sit sat sits sitting
- site sited siting sites
- situate situation
- six sixes sixteen
- size sizes sizing sized sleeping sleeps
- slight slowed slower slowest slowing smaller smallest
- smoke smoked smokes smoking
- so
- social societies
- some sons
- soon
- sorry
- sort sorted
- sound sounds sounded sounding southeast
- space spaced speaker speakers speaking speaks spoke spoken
- special
- specific
- speed sped
- spell spelt spells spelling
- spend spending spends spent
- square
- staff staffed staffing staffs
- stage staging staged stages
- stairs
- stand standing stands stood
- standard standards started starting starts stated stations stationed stationing
- stay stayed staying stays
- step stepped stepping steps
- stick sticking sticks stuck stiller stillest stopped stopping stops stories
- straight
- strategy streets
- strike strikes striking stronger strongest strongly
- structure students studied studies studying
- stuff stuffs stuffing stuffed
- stupid
- subject subjected subjecting subjects
- succeed succeeded succeeding succeeds success
- such
- sudden suddenly
- suggest
- suit suits suiting suited
- summer summers sunlight
- supply supplied supplier suppliers supplies supplying
- support supported
- suppose supposed
- sure
- surprise surprised surprises surprising
- switch switched switches switching
- system
T
[change]tablecloth tables tabled tabling taken takes taking talked talking talks
- tape
- tax teas
- teach teachers teaches teaching teachings
- team teamed teaming teams
- telephone telephoning telephones telephoned phones phoning phoned televisions
- tell
- ten tens tenth tenths
- tend tends tended tending tendency tendencies
- term terms termed terming
- terrible tested
- than
- thank thanks thanking
- the
- then
- therefore their theirs them
- thing things
- think thinking
- thirteen
- this these those that
- though
- thousand thousands
- three threes third
- through throughout
- throw threw throwing thrown throws
- tie
- time timer times
- to
- tonight
- too
- top
- total totaled totaling totalled
- touch touched touches touching
- toward towards towns traded trades trading
- traffic trained
- transport transportation
- travel
- treat treats trees
- trouble troubled
- trust trusted trusting tried
- turn turned turning turns
- twelve twelves twelfth twenties
- two twice twos
- type typed types typing
U
[change]- u
- under underneath understanding understandings understands understood
- union unions
- unit units
- unite united unites uniting unity
- unless
- until
- up ups
- upon
- use
- usual usually unusual
V
[change]- v
- value valuable valuables
- various
- video videoed videoing videos
- view viewed viewing views
- visit
- vote
W
[change]- w
- wage wages waited waiting waits waiter waiters waitress waitresses
- walk walked walking walks wanted wanting wants warred warring wars
- warm
- waste wasted
- watch watched watches watching watered waters watering ways our ours ourselves us
- wear wearing wears wore worn
- wee weekend weekends
- weigh weights weight weighs weighing weighed welcomed welcomes welcoming whatever whenever wherever
- whether whichever
- while whoever whom whose
- whole wholes widely widen wives
- will
- win
- wind windows
- wish
- with
- within
- without
- wonder
- wood woods wooden
- word words worked workers working workings works
- world worlds worldly
- worry worrying worries worried
- worse worst
- worth worthy
- would
- wrong wronged wronging wrongs
X
[change]Y
[change]Z
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