The
levels of the word lists in WordHacker
are from basic to advanced. Which list is suitable for you? Here we list
all the word lists for you to select the right one;-) Remember,
you can make and open/import your own word lists(even with your local
definition)!
| Word
List |
Word
Count |
Who
it's suitable for |
| Word Lists for New Concept English | ||
| NCE-1--New Concept English Book 1 | 861 |
For beginners |
| NCE-2--New Concept English Book 2 | 836 |
For pre-intermediate students |
| NCE-3--New Concept English BooK 3 | 1038 |
For intermediate students |
| NCE-4--New Concept English BooK 4 | 779 |
For advanced students |
| Word Lists for ESL/EFL tests in college | ||
| CET-4--College English Test Band 4 | 4563 |
For ESL/EFL students in college |
| CET-6--College English Test Band 6 | 2078 |
For ESL/EFL students in college, 4563 + 2078 words |
| NETEM--National Etrance of English Test for Master Candidates | 5361 |
For Master Candidates |
| Word Lists for Important Tests | ||
| SAT--Scholastic Assessment Test | 4736 |
For high-school students who want to get an offer from a certain college or universty in US |
| TOEFL--Test of English as a Foreign Language | 2434 |
Each year nearly 800,000 individuals worldwide register for the exam that helps open a new world of possibilities for a new generation of achievers. |
| GRE--Graduate Record Examination | 4886(Barron) 3204(TaiSha) 3525(Rainbow) 9927(RedBook) |
For the people want to get a scholaships from a certain universty in US |
| GMAT--Graduate Management Admission Test | 1091 |
For the people who want to get an MBA scholaships in US |
| Word
Lists of Your Own |
||
| My list 1--Your Blank word list | Your own level | |
| My list 2--Your Blank word list | Your own level | |
| My list 3--Your Blank word list | Your own level | |
| My list 4--Your Blank word list | Your own level | |
| Word List based on Word Frequency | ||
| AWL--Academic Word List | 570 |
For academic learners |
| Word Frequency Level 1 | 883 |
The unique words in most frequent words 1-1000 |
| Word Frequency Level 2 | 782 |
The unique words in most frequent words 1001-2000 |
| Word Frequency Level 3 | 753 |
The unique words in most frequent words 2001-3000 |
| Word Frequency Level 4 | 705 |
The unique words in most frequent words 3001-4000 |
| Word Frequency Level 5 | 688 |
The unique words in most frequent words 4001-5000 |
| Word Frequency Level 6 | 676 |
The unique words in most frequent words 5001-6000 |
| Word Frequency Level 7 | 666 |
The unique words in most frequent words 6001-7000 |
| Word Frequency Level 8 | 648 |
The unique words in most frequent words 7001-8000 |
| Word Frequency Level 9 | 608 |
The unique words in most frequent words 8001-9000 |
| Word Frequency Level 10 | 614 |
The unique words in most frequent words 9001-10000 |
The first list(Word Frequency Level 1) contains the first 1000 most frequent words (1-1000) and the second list contains the next one thousand most frequent words (1001-2000). These lists reflect general non-academic English as it is used in newspapers, magazines and books.
Word Frequency Level 1-20 are created from the Brown Corpus. The lists are based solely on word counts.The Brown Corpus comprises 1,015,945 words with 47,218 unique words. The start of the first list is as follows:
| Word |
Instances |
%
Frequency |
|
| 1. | The |
64434 | 6.8872 |
| 2. | of |
36410 | 3.5839 |
| 3. | and |
28854 | 2.8401 |
| 4. | to |
26154 | 2.5744 |
| 5. | a |
23363 | 2.2996 |
| 6. | in |
21345 | 2.1010 |
| 7. | that |
10594 | 1.0428 |
| 8. | is |
10102 | 0.9943 |
Vocabulary size and text coverage in the Brown corpus
| Vocabulary
size |
Text
coverage |
Graph |
| 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 15,851 |
72.0% 79.7% 84.0% 86.8% 88.7% 89.9% 97.8% |
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The Academic Word List was developed at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected according to their frequency of use in academic texts. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at tertiary institutions.
You
can find more word list on Internet by Google.
Such as Basic
Word List English - French ,Basic
Word List English - German. When you get your own word list you
can make your own word list file *.wdl.
Word list file *.wdl is a simple text file.There is only one word
record per line. Use '|' to seperate phrase and its definition. Use
';' to comment a line. You can open *.wdl file directly or import
it into your own word lists in WordHacker.
Example1.wdl:
| ;This
is a example word list WITH definition academy n. school for special training access n. ~ means of approaching or entering (a place) accommodate v. provide lodging or room for accompany v. walk or travel with (sb) as a companion or helper not bad | quite good |
Example2.wdl:
| ;This
is a example word list WITHOUT definition academy access accommodate accompany not bad | |