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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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Headword List
[change]A
[change]ability abler ablest ably abilities unable inability absolutist absolutists
- accept acceptability acceptable accounted accounts unachievable achieved
- act acted acting inaction actions
- actual
- add added adding addressed addresses addressing addressee addressees
- admit admissions
- advertise advertising advertises affected affecting affects
- afford afforded affording affords unaffordable afterward afternoons aged ages aging
- agent agencies agents agreeing agreements agrees
- alright
- America Americans amounted amounting amounts answered anymore
- apparent
- appear appearance appeared appears appearances reappear reappears reappeared reappearing
- apply applications applied applies
- appoint appoints appointed appointing appointments reappoint reappointed reappointing
- area areas
- argue arguing argues argued armed arms
- arrange arranged arranging arranges
- art arts associates associated associating
- assume assumed assumes assuming assumption assumptions
- at
- attend attends attending attended
- authority
- aware
- awful
B
[change]- b babies backed backing backs backbone backwards
- bad badly
- bag bags bagging bagged
- balance balancing balances balls
- bank banked bars barred
- base based
- basis beats beating
- beauty
- bed bedroom bedrooms bedroomed bedding bedded beds
- before
- begin beginner beginners beginnings begins begun believed believes believing
- benefit betting bets
- big bigger
- bill bills billed billing
- birth births birthdays bits blacker blackest
- bloke blokes blowing blows
- board boarded boarding boards boats boated boating bodies
- bother bothered bothering bothers bottling bottles bottled bottoms bottomed bottoming boxes breaking briefed briefing
- brilliant bringing brings
- build businesses
- busy buying buys
C
[change]- c caked caking cakes calling calls cannot
- car cars
- card cards cared carried cases cats catches catching caused causes causing cents certainly
- chair chairs chaired chairing
- chairman chairmen
- chance changed changes changing
- chap chaps
- character characteristic
- charge charged checks checking checked childish childhood childless choices chooses choosing chose chosen Christians Christmases
- church churches cities
- claim claimed claiming claims
- class cleaned cleaner
- clear cleared clearer clearest clearing
- client clients clocks
- closes closed clothed clothing clubbed clubbing clubs
- coffee coffees colder coldest
- colleague colleagues
- collect collects collecting collected
- college colleges
- colour color comes coming
- comment
- commit commitment commitments commits committed committees commoner commoners commonest commonly
- community communities companies
- compare
- complete completed
- compute
- concern concerned concerning concerns
- condition
- confer
- consider
- contact contracted contracting controlled converses conversed conversing
- cook cooking
- copy copying copies copied copiers
- corner corners cornered cornering corrects
- cost costing
- council
- count counted countries
- county counties
- couple coupled uncoupled coupling couples
- course courses courts
- cover covered covering coverings
- create created creates creating creation creations creative crossed crosses crossing
- cup cups cupping cupped
- current currents currently cuts cutting cuttings
D
[change]- d
- dad daddy dads
- danger dangerous
- date dates dated daily daylight dearer dearest
- debate
- decide decided
- decision decisions deepen
- definite degrees
- department departments depends depended depending
- describe described describes designed
- detail detailed detailing details
- develop developed died dies dying
- difference differences differently
- difficult difficulties dinners directed
- discuss discussing discusses discussed
- district districts
- divide divided divides dividing doctors
- document dogs doors indoors
- double doubled doubling doubted downs
- draw drawing drawings drawn
- dress dressed dresses drinks
- drive dropped dropping
- dry dried dries driest dryer drying
E
[change]- e
- early earlier earliest eastward eastwards
- easy easier easiest
- economy
- educate educating educates educated effected effecting effective
- egg eggs eighteen
- elect elected electricians electrician
- eleven elevens
- else
- employ employed employees ended engines engineer engineering engineers engineered
- enjoy enjoyed enjoying
- enter
- especial
- Europe European Europeans
- even evenings everybody everyday everyone everything everywhere
- evidence
- exact exactly
- example examples
- except exercised exercises exercising
- exist existed existing exists
- expect
- expense expenses expensive experienced experiences experiencing
- explain explained
- extra extras
- eye eyed
F
[change]- f faced faces facts
- fair fairer fairest families farther farthest farmer farmers
- fast faster fastest fathers favor feeding feeds feelings fewer fewest
- field fields fielded fielding fighter fighters fighting fights
- figure figures figured figuring
- file
- fill filled
- film films filming filmed
- finance finding findings finds finished finishes finishing fires fired firing firsts fished
- fit fives fifteen flattest flatten flattens flattened flattening floors flooring
- follow followed foods footed football
- force forced forgets forgetting
- fortune fortunate
- forward forwards forwarding forwarded fours
- France freed
- Friday
- front fronts fronting fronted fullest
- fun
- fund funded
- further furthest futures
G
[change]- g games gaming gardener gardeners gardens gardening gardened
- gas gases Germans gets gotta gotcha girls gal gals gave gives giving
- glass glasses gods goodness goodbyes
- grand grandsons grandson grandparents grandparent grandpa grandpas grandmother grandmothers granted granting grants greater greatest
- green greener greenest
- group grouped grouping growing grows growth growths
- guess guessing guesses guessed guys
H
[change]- h hairs halves halfway halls handed
- hang hanged hanging hangings hangs hung
- happen happened happening
- happy happier happiest harden hardened hardening hardens harder hardest
- hate hatreds hating hates hated
- have headed heading headings heads
- health healthier healthiest heavier heaviest hells helped helpful higher highest hitting
- holiday holidays
- honest
- hospital hospitals hourly
- house housed housing
- hullo hundreds
- husband husbands
I
[change]ideas
- identify ifs
- imagine imagining imagines imagined
- important
- improve improving improves improved
- include included includes including
- income incomes increased increases increasing
- individual
- industry
- inform informs informing informed
- inside insides
- instead insuring insures insured insurance
- interest interested interests
- into
- introduce introduced introduces introducing introduction introductions invested investing investment investments
- involve involved
- issue itself
- item
J
[change]jobs jobless joined joining joins judged judges judging judgments judgements judgemental jumps jumping jumped jumpy justly
K
[change]- k keepers keeping keeps keys
- kid kids
- kill kills killer killers killing kings
- kitchen kitchens knocks knocking knocked knocker knockers knowing knowingly knows
L
[change]- l
- labour labor laboured labouring labours labored laboring labors labourer labourers laborer laborers
- lad lads ladies ladylike landed landing landings lands languages
- last lasted lasting lasts
- late lately laughs laughing laughed laws lawyer lawyers laid laying lain leader leaders learner leaving lefts
- leg legs lessened lessening letters
- level levelled liar liked liking
- likely likelier likeliest likelihood unlikely lines lined lining
- link listened littler littlest lived
- load
- lock
- London looking
- lord lords lots loved
- low
- luck
- lunch lunches
M
[change]- m mainly mankind managing manages managers
- mark marked marketed marketing markets
- marry marriage marriages marries marrying
- match matches matched mattered mattering matters
- maybe meaner meanest
- meaning measured measurements measures meeting meetings meets
- member members membership memberships
- mention mentioned mentioning mentions middles
- mile miles millions
- minister ministers minutes
- miss
- mister
- Monday moneys monies monthly
- most mothers motions
- move moved moves moving movements
- Mrs musical musicals musicians
N
[change]- n named unnamed names naming
- nation nationals natural nearby nearer nearest nearly
- necessary needed newer newest nicest nicer nobody
- non
- none
- normal
- north t notes noting
- notice numbered
O
[change]- o
- obvious
- occasion odds odder oddest
- offer offered offering offerings offers
- office officers offices
- okay older oldest onto ones opening openings
- operate operated operates operating operations opportunities
- oppose ordered ordering
- organize organisations organise organised
- original others
- otherwise
- ought outer
P
[change]- pack packs packed packages packaging packaged pages
- paint painted painters paintings paints pairs pairing paired
- paper papers papered papering paragraphing paragraphs
- pardon pardons pardoned pardoning parents parental parted parting particulars parties
- pass passes passing paying payments
- pence
- pension pensions peoples
- per perfected perfecting
- period
- person photography photographs
- pick picking pictured pictures picturing
- piece pieces placed places placing
- plan planned played player players playing plays
- please
- plus pluses
- police policing
- policy policies poorer poorest positions positioning positioned
- positive positives
- possible
- pound pounds powered powerful practises practised practising practice practices practicing practiced
- prepare
- press pressed
- pressure
- presume prettier prettiest
- previous
- print printed printer printers printing
- private
- probable probably probability probabilities
- problem problems
- proceed
- process processed processes processing
- produce produced products production productions projected projecting proposals protected protecting
- provide provides providing publicity pulled pulling pulls purposes pushing pushes pushed
Q
[change]- quality qualities
- quarter quarterly quarters
- quick quickness quickest quicker
- quid quids
- quiet quieter quietest quietly
R
[change]- r radios radioed railways
- raise raised raises raising ranged ranges ranging
- rather reader readers
- real
- realise realize
- receive received receives receiving
- reckon reckoned reckoning reckons recognised recognises recognising
- recommend recommends recommending recommended
- record recorded redder reddest reduces reducing reduction
- refer refers referring referred
- regard
- region
- relation related relates relating relations relationships
- remember remembered remembering remembers
- report reported representative representatives
- require required
- research
- resource
- respect respected respecting respects
- responsible rested resting restful
- result ridding rids rang ringed ringing rings rung rises rising roads
- role rolled rolling rolls rooms
- rule ruled
S
[change]- sale sales saved said
- scheme
- school
- science sciences scored scoring scores
- Scotland
- seat
- secretary
- secure
- see seeing
- seem seemed seeming
- self
- sell
- send separated
- serious
- serve servants served sets setting
- settle settled settlements settler settlers settles settling seventeen sexes
- share shared hers
- sheet sheets
- shoe shoed shoeing shoes shooting shootings shoots shops shopping showing shows shutting shuts sickness sides sided siding
- sign signed signing signs
- simple sings sang sung
- single singled
- sir sits sitting sited siting sites
- situate sixes sixteen
- size sizes sizing sized sleeping sleeps
- slight slowed slower slowest slowing smaller smallest smoked smokes smoking
- social societies sons
- sorry sorted sounds sounded sounding southeast spaced speaker speakers speaking speaks spoke
- specific
- speed spells spending spends staffed staffing staffs
- stage staging staged stages
- stairs
- stand stands
- standard standards
- start started starting starts stated
- station stations stationed stationing stayed staying stays stepped stepping steps sticking stiller stillest stopped stopping stops
- story stories
- strategy streets
- strike strikes striking stronger strongest strongly
- student students studied studies studying
- stuff stuffs stuffing stuffed subjected subjecting
- succeed succeeded succeeding succeeds success
- sudden suddenly
- suit suits suiting suited summers sunlight
- Sunday supplied suppliers supplies supplying
- support supported
- suppose supposed
- surprise surprised surprises surprising switched switches switching
- system
T
[change]- table tablecloth tables tabled tabling takes taking talked talking talks
- tape
- tax taxes taught teacher teachers teaches teaching teachings
- team teamed teaming teams
- telephone telephoning telephones telephoned phones phoning phoned
- television televisions tens tenths
- tend tends tended tending tendency tendencies termed terming
- terrible tested
- thank thanking theirs
- thirteen
- thirty thousands threes throughout
- throw throwing throws
- tie timer
- today
- tomorrow
- tonight
- top totaled totaling totalled touched touches touching
- toward towns traded trades
- traffic
- train trained
- travel
- treat treats
- tree troubled
- trust trusted trusting tried turned turning turns
- twelve twelves twelfth
- twenty twenties twice twos
- type typed types typing
U
[change]- u underneath understanding understandings understands
- union unions
- unit units
- unite united unites uniting
- university
- unless ups
- upon
- usual
V
[change]- v
- value valuable valuables
- various
- video videoed videoing videos
- view viewed viewing views
- village
- visit
- vote
W
[change]- wage wages
- wait waiter waiters waitress waitresses walked walking walks
- wall wanted wanting wants warred warring wars
- warm wasted
- watch watched watches watching watered waters watering ways ours ourselves wearing wears weekend weekends weighs weighed welcomed welcomes welcoming
- well whenever wherever
- whether whichever
- white whoever wholes
- wide widely widen wives windows
- wonder woods wooden words
- work worked workers working workings worlds
- worry worrying worries worried
- worse
- worth
- wrong wronged wronging wrongs
X
[change]Y
[change]years yearly yr yeses
Z
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