272 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_lists_by_frequency

   273 

   274 Useful word lists:

   275 

   276 

   277 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Word_List

   278   Academic Word List at Wikipedia.

   279 https://web.archive.org/web/20080212073904/http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/headwords.shtml

   280   Academic Word List by Averil Coxhead created in 2000 as addition to GSL and

   281   has 570 headwords.

   282 

   283 Obsolete or proprietary word list:

   284 

   285 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English

   286   850 headword list created in 1930.

   287 

   288 General Service List

   289 --------------------

   290 

   291 Updated GSL (General Service List) was obtained from:

   292 

   293 http://jbauman.com/gsl.html

   294   A 1995 revised version of the GSL with minor changes by John Bauman. He added

   295   284 new headwords to original 2000 word list created by Michael West in 1953.

   296 

   297 First column represents the number of occurrences per 1,000,000 words of the

   298 Brown corpus based on counting word families.

   299 

   300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Service_List

   301   General Service List at Wikipedia.

   302 http://jbauman.com/aboutgsl.html

   303   About the General Service List by John Bauman.

   304 

   305 New General Service List

   306 ------------------------

   307 

   308 NGSL was obtained from:

   309 

   310 http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/s/NGSL-101-by-band-qq9o.xlsx

   311   Microsoft XLS file with headword, frequency and SFI.

   312 

   313 First column represents the adjusted frequency per 1,000,000 words and counting

   314 base word families.

   315 

   316 Academic Word List

   317 ------------------

   318 

   319 The Academic Word List (AWL) was published in the Summer, 2000 issue of the

   320 TESOL Quarterly (v. 34, no. 2). It was devloped by Averil Coxhead, of Victoria

   321 University of Wellington, in New Zealand. The AWL is a replacement for the

   322 University Word List (published by Paul Nation in 1984).

   323 

   324 AWL (Academic Word List) is obtained from:

   325 

   326 https://web.archive.org/web/20081014065815/http://language.massey.ac.nz/staff/awl/download/awlheadwords.rtf

   327   Original Academic Word List in RTF format.

   328 

   329 Its structure is headword following by frequency level (from 1 as most frequent

   330 to 10 as least frequent).

   331 

   332 New Academic Word List

   333 ----------------------

   334 

   335 Frequency word list was obtained from:

   336 

   337 http://www.newacademicwordlist.org/s/NAWL_SFI.csv

   338   CSV with colums ``Word,SFI,U,D``.

   339 

   340 ``SFI`` and ``D`` columns was deleted and ``U`` and ``Word`` column was swapped.

   341 Data was sorted by ``U`` column (adjusted frequency per 1,000,000 words).

   342 

   343 NSWL headword list with word variations was obtained from:

   344 

   345 http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antwordprofiler/

   346   Laurence Anthony's AntWordProfiler home page.

   347 

   348 It is encoded in ``latin-1`` and recoded into ``utf-8`` (because of ``É``

   349 symbol).

   350 

   351 See also:

   352 

   353 http://www.newacademicwordlist.org/

   354   Home page.

   355 

   356 Special English word list

   357 -------------------------

   358 

   359 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_English

   360   Special English is a controlled version of the English languageused by the

   361   United States broadcasting service Voice of America (VOA). 1557 headwords.

   362 

   363 BNC+COCA wordlist

   364 -----------------

   365 

   366 Paul Nation prepare frequency wordlist from combined BNC and COCA corpus:

   367 

   368 http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/paul-nation

   369   Paul Nation's home page and list download page.

   370 https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:BNC_spoken_freq

   371   About list on Wikimedia.

   372 

   373 It has 25000 basewords (and each baseword comes with variations) splited into

   374 chunks by 1000 words.

   375 

   376 I get list from:

   377 

   378 http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antwordprofiler/

   379   Laurence Anthony's AntWordProfiler home page.