A General Service List of English Words

The General Service List (GSL) is a set of 2,284 essential English words for learners, initially created in 1953 and updated in 1995. It organizes headwords into word families based on linguistic criteria and ranks them by frequency using data from the Brown Corpus. The revised GSL provides a more accurate and comprehensive tool for language learning.

BNC/COCA Headword Lists

The BNC/COCA headword lists contain the headwords from the 25,000 BNC/COCA word families that come with the Range program. The first 2,000 or 3,000 words of the BNC/COCA lists are an alternative to the General Service List.

Contracts Word List

The Contracts Word List contains lemmas that are both prevalent and specialized in U.S. business contracts (2000-2022). The main CWL contains 684 lemmas that are prevalent and specialized across all contract types. The CWL+ contains lemmas that are distinctive of each of the 54 individual contract sub-types.

Core Medical List

The Core Medical List (CoMeL) contains 2881 lemmas occurring at frequencies above 10 per million words and is designed to assist ESL/EFL healthcare professionals who aim to practice medicine in the US or the UK and who need to sit medical licensing examinations.

CWL+ business assurance contracts

The CWL+ is an expansion of the Contracts World List (CWL), which contains lemmas that are both prevalent and specialized in U.S. business contracts (2000-2022). The CWL+ contains lemmas that are distinctive of each of the 54 individual contract sub-types. This is the set of lists for business assurance contacts.

CWL+ business management contracts

The CWL+ is an expansion of the Contracts World List (CWL), which contains lemmas that are both prevalent and specialized in U.S. business contracts (2000-2022). The CWL+ contains lemmas that are distinctive of each of the 54 individual contract sub-types. This is the set of lists for business management contacts.

CWL+ employment contracts

The CWL+ is an expansion of the Contracts World List (CWL), which contains lemmas that are both prevalent and specialized in U.S. business contracts (2000-2022). The CWL+ contains lemmas that are distinctive of each of the 54 individual contract sub-types. This is the set of lists for employment contacts.

CWL+ investment management contracts

The CWL+ is an expansion of the Contracts World List (CWL), which contains lemmas that are both prevalent and specialized in U.S. business contracts (2000-2022). The CWL+ contains lemmas that are distinctive of each of the 54 individual contract sub-types. This is the set of lists for investment management contacts.

CWL+ leasing and loan financing contracts

The CWL+ is an expansion of the Contracts World List (CWL), which contains lemmas that are both prevalent and specialized in U.S. business contracts (2000-2022). The CWL+ contains lemmas that are distinctive of each of the 54 individual contract sub-types. This is the set of lists for leasing and loan financing contacts.

CWL+ sales-related contracts

The CWL+ is an expansion of the Contracts World List (CWL), which contains lemmas that are both prevalent and specialized in U.S. business contracts (2000-2022). The CWL+ contains lemmas that are distinctive of each of the 54 individual contract sub-types. This is the set of lists for sales-related contacts.

General Service List of Conversational English

The General Service List of Conversational English is a general service list of conversational British English, based on the spoken British National Corpus 2014. The version of the list on this site contains the heavy-duty vocabulary, i.e. the K2 words of conversational English, divided into four bands: K0.5, K1.0, K1.5 and K2.0.

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