Wiktionary talk:Simple English word list
Add topicIMHO, there are two strange intruders in this word list:
the word form 'closes' [next to the verb 'close' also in the list] and the old pronoun 'thou'.
Jansegers (talk) 12:09, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
Combining the BASIC850 + BNC1000Headwords + BNCspoken300 + BNCwritten300 + the four remaining words of this list [ closes, reach, realise, thou ] we get this list of 1461 words:
a • able • about • absolute • accept • account • achieve • acid • across • act • active • actual • actually • add • addition • address • adjustment • admit • advertise • advertisement • affect • afford • after • afternoon • again • against • age • agent • ago • agree • agreement • air • all • allow • almost • along • already • alright • also • although • always • America • among • amount • amusement • and • angle • angry • animal • another • answer • ant • any • anybody • anything • anyway • apart • apparatus • apparent • appear • apple • apply • appoint • approach • appropriate • approval • arch • area • argue • argument • arm • army • around • arrange • art • as • ask • associate • assume • at • at • least • attack • attempt • attend • attention • attraction • authority • automatic • available • awake • aware • away • awful • baby • back • bad • bag • balance • ball • band • bank • bar • base • basin • basis • basket • bath • be • bear • beat • beautiful • beauty • because • become • bed • bee • before • begin • behavior • behind • belief • believe • bell • benefit • bent • berry • best • bet • better • between • big • bill • bird • birth • bit • bite • bitter • black • blade • bloke • blood • bloody • blow • blue • board • boat • body • boiling • bone • book • boot • both • bother • bottle • bottom • box • boy • brain • brake • branch • brass • bread • break • breath • brick • bridge • brief • bright • brilliant • bring • Britain • British • broken • brother • brown • brush • bucket • budget • build • building • bulb • burn • burst • bus • business • busy • but • butter • button • buy • by • cake • call • camera • can • canvas • car • card • care • carriage • carry • cart • case • cat • catch • cause • cent • centre • certain • certainly • chain • chair • chairman • chalk • chance • change • chap • character • charge • cheap • check • cheese • chemical • chest • chief • child • chin • choice • choose • Christ • Christmas • church • circle • city • claim • class • clean • clear • client • clock • close • closes • cloth • clothe • cloud • club • coal • coat • coffee • cold • collar • colleague • collect • college • color • colour • colour • comb • come • comfort • comment • commit • committee • common • community • company • compare • comparison • competition • complete • complex • compute • concern • condition • confer • connection • conscious • consider • consult • contact • continue • contract • control • converse • cook • copper • copy • cord • cork • corner • correct • cos • cost • cotton • cough • could • council • count • country • county • couple • course • court • cover • cow • crack • create • credit • crime • cross • cruel • crush • cry • cup • current • curtain • curve • cushion • cut • dad • damage • danger • dark • date • daughter • day • dead • deal • dear • death • debate • debt • decide • decision • deep • definite • degree • delicate • department • depend • dependent • describe • design • desire • destruction • detail • develop • development • die • difference • different • difficult • digestion • dinner • direct • direction • dirty • discovery • discuss • discussion • disease • disgust • distance • distribution • district • divide • division • do • doctor • document • dog • door • double • doubt • down • drain • draw • drawer • dress • drink • drive • driving • drop • dry • due • during • dust • each • ear • early • earth • east • easy • eat • economy • edge • educate • education • effect • egg • eight • eighty • either • elastic • elect • electric • eleven • else • employ • encourage • end • engine • English • enjoy • enough • enter • environment • equal • error • especial • Europe • even • evening • event • ever • every • everybody • everything • evidence • exact • example • except • exchange • excuse • exercise • exist • existence • expansion • expect • expense • experience • expert • explain • express • extra • eye • face • fact • fair • fall • false • family • far • farm • fast • fat • father • favour • fear • feather • feeble • feed • feel • feeling • female • fertile • few • fiction • field • fifty • fight • figure • file • fill • film • final • finance • find • fine • finger • finish • fire • first • fish • fit • five • fixed • flag • flame • flat • flight • floor • flower • fly • fold • follow • food • foolish • foot • for • force • forget • fork • form • fortune • forty • forward • four • fowl • frame • France • free • frequent • Friday • friend • from • front • fruit • full • fun • function • fund • further • future • g • game • garden • gas • general • Germany • get • girl • give • glass • glove • go • goat • god • gold • good • goodbye • govern • government • grain • grand • grant • grass • great • green • grey • gray • grip • ground • group • grow • growth • guess • guide • gun • guy • h • hair • half • hall • hammer • hand • hang • hanging • happen • happy • harbor • hard • harmony • hat • hate • have • he • head • health • healthy • hear • hearing • heart • heat • heavy • hell • help • her • here • high • him • himself • his • history • hit • hold • hole • holiday • hollow • home • honest • hook • hope • horn • horse • hospital • hot • hour • house • how • however • hullo • humor • hundred • husband • I • ice • idea • identify • if • ill • imagine • important • improve • impulse • in • include • income • increase • indeed • individual • industrialise • industry • inform • ink • insect • inside • instead • instrument • insurance • insure • interest • into • introduce • invention • invest • involve • iron • island • issue • it • item • its • itself • jelly • Jesus • jewel • job • join • journey • judge • jump • just • keep • kettle • key • kick • kid • kill • kind • king • kiss • kitchen • knee • knife • knock • knot • know • knowledge • l • labour • lad • lady • land • language • large • last • late • later • laugh • law • lay • lead • leaf • learn • learning • leather • leave • left • leg • less • let • let's • letter • level • library • lie • life • lift • light • like • likely • limit • line • linen • link • lip • liquid • list • listen • little • little • (less, • least) • live • living • load • local • lock • London • long • look • loose • lord • lose • loss • lot • loud • love • lovely • low • luck • lunch • m • machine • main • major • make • male • man • manage • manager • many • map • mark • market • married • marry • mass • match • material • matter • may • maybe • me • meal • mean • meaning • measure • meat • medical • meet • meeting • member • memory • mention • metal • middle • might • mile • military • milk • million • mind • mine • minister • minus • minute • miss • mist • mister • mixed • moment • Monday • money • monkey • month • moon • more • morning • most • mother • motion • mountain • mouth • move • Mr • Mrs • much • much • (more, • most) • mum • muscle • music • must • my • nail • name • narrow • nation • natural • nature • near • necessary • neck • need • needle • nerve • net • never • new • news • next • nice • night • nine • nineteen • ninety • no • noise • non • none • normal • north • nose • not • note • nothing • notice • now • number • nut • observation • obvious • obviously • occasion • odd • of • of • course • off • offer • office • often • oil • okay • old • on • once • one • only • open • operate • operation • opinion • opportunity • oppose • opposite • or • orange • order • organization • organize • original • ornament • other • others • otherwise • ought • our • out • oven • over • own • owner • pack • page • pain • paint • pair • paper • paragraph • parallel • parcel • pardon • parent • park • part • particular • party • pass • past • paste • pay • payment • peace • pen • pence • pencil • pension • people • per • percent • perfect • perhaps • period • person • photograph • physical • pick • picture • piece • pig • pin • pipe • place • plan • plane • plant • plate • play • please • pleasure • plough • plow • plus • pocket • point • poison • police • policy • polish • politic • political • poor • porter • position • positive • possible • post • pot • potato • pound • powder • power • practise • prepare • present • press • pressure • presume • pretty • previous • price • print • prison • private • probable • probably • problem • proceed • process • produce • product • profit • programme • project • proper • property • propose • prose • protect • protest • provide • public • pull • pump • punishment • purpose • push • put • quality • quarter • question • quick • quid • quiet • quite • radio • rail • rain • raise • range • rat • rate • rather • ray • reach • reaction • read • reading • ready • real • realise • realize • really • reason • receipt • receive • recent • reckon • recognize • recommend • record • red • reduce • refer • regard • region • regret • regular • relation • religion • remember • report • represent • representative • request • require • research • resource • respect • responsible • rest • result • return • reward • rhythm • rice • rid • right • ring • rise • river • road • rod • role • roll • roof • room • root • rough • round • rub • rule • run • sad • safe • sail • sale • salt • same • sand • Saturday • save • say • scale • scheme • school • science • scissors • score • Scotland • screw • sea • seat • second • secret • secretary • section • secure • see • seed • seem • selection • self • sell • send • sense • separate • serious • servant • serve • service • set • settle • seven • several • sex • shade • shake • shall • shame • share • sharp • she • sheep • sheet • shelf • ship • shirt • shock • shoe • shoot • shop • short • should • show • shut • sick • side • sign • silk • silver • similar • simple • since • sing • single • sir • sister • sit • site • situate • six • sixty • size • skin • skirt • sky • sleep • slight • slip • slope • slow • small • smash • smell • smile • smoke • smooth • snake • sneeze • snow • so • soap • social • society • sock • soft • solid • some • somebody • something • son • song • soon • sorry • sort • sound • soup • south • space • spade • speak • special • specific • speed • spell • spend • sponge • spoon • spring • square • staff • stage • stairs • stamp • stand • standard • star • start • state • statement • station • stay • steam • steel • stem • step • stick • sticky • stiff • still • stitch • stocking • stomach • stone • stop • store • story • straight • strange • strategy • street • stretch • strike • strong • structure • student • study • stuff • stupid • subject • substance • succeed • such • sudden • sugar • suggest • suggestion • suit • summer • sun • Sunday • supply • support • suppose • sure • surprise • sweet • swim • switch • system • table • tail • take • talk • tall • tape • taste • tax • tea • teach • teaching • team • telephone • television • tell • ten • tend • tendency • term • terrible • test • than • thank • that • the • their • them • themselves • then • theory • there • therefore • these • they • thick • thin • thing • think • thirteen • thirty • this • those • thou • though • thought • thousand • thread • three • throat • through • throw • thumb • thunder • Thursday • ticket • tie • tight • till • time • tin • tired • to • today • toe • together • tomorrow • tongue • tonight • too • tooth • top • total • touch • toward • towards • town • trade • traffic • train • transport • travel • tray • treat • tree • trick • trouble • trousers • true • trust • try • Tuesday • turn • twelve • twenty • twist • two • type • umbrella • under • understand • union • unit • unite • university • unless • until • up • upon • us • use • usual • value • various • verse • very • vessel • video • view • village • violent • visit • voice • vote • wage • wait • waiting • walk • wall • want • war • warm • wash • waste • watch • water • wave • wax • way • we • wear • weather • Wednesday • wee • week • weigh • weight • welcome • well • west • wet • what • whatever • wheel • when • where • whether • which • while • whip • whistle • white • who • whole • why • wide • wife • will • win • wind • window • wine • wing • winter • wire • wise • wish • with • within • without • woman • wonder • wood • wool • word • work • world • worm • worry • worse • worth • would • wound • write • writing • wrong • yeah • year • yellow • yes • yesterday • yet • you • young • your
This is the maximum list within the boundaries suggested for the simple wiktionary defining vocabulary (respecting the four extra words introduced by my fellow Wiktionarians, namely closes, reach, realise and thou ).