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Frequency Dictionary of American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists
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In February, Routledge will publish the book Frequency Dictionary of American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists, which is based on data from the 400 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). In addition to the printed version, it will also be possible to download an expanded electronic version of the dictionary from http://www.wordfrequency.info.
This frequency data will allow you to focus on English vocabulary in a systematic and organized way that is not possible with any other resource. Because the frequency data is based on the largest, most balanced, and most recent corpus of American English, you can be sure that the vocabulary represents what you will actually encounter in the “real world”.
The downloadable versions of the dictionary will include:
● frequency-ranked lists of the top 20,000 lemmas/words in English
● 20-30 collocates (nearby words) for each entry, which give valuable insight into meaning and usage (up to 300 collocates per entry are available in some versions)
● synonyms (for most words), which give additional insight into meaning
● indications of genre variation (e.g. more frequent in spoken, fiction, newspapers, or academic)
● other frequency and distributional information
Three examples (from among 20,000 in the expanded frequency lists) are the following:
1421 blow v
noun wind, whistle, air, nose, smoke, breeze, face, hair, kiss, head, window, horn, candle, mind, storm misc away, through, across
out candle, window, breath, air, wind, smoke, knee, tire, match up building, plot, bomb, plane, car, bridge, wind, threaten off steam, head, roof, leg
● whoosh, gust, waft, puff || move, propel, drive, carry
27254 | 0.94 F
10129 shimmering j
noun light, water, heat, hair, sun, sea, surface, silver, glass, wave, color misc blue, white, across, above, green, golden, wear, red, dark, rise, yellow, beyond
● iridescent, sparkling, shining, gleaming, glistening, glittering
1555 | 0.90 F
18669 pathos n
adj full, human, genuine, pure, sympathetic, comic, final, deep, Greek, tragic noun humor, tragedy, comedy, sense, appeal, suffering, emotion, ethos, scene verb evoke, reflect, avoid, generalize, capture, experience, arouse
● sadness, bleakness, despair, tragedy, anguish
473 | 0.90 A
To learn more about the frequency dictionary and the frequency lists, please visit http://www.wordfrequency.info. If you would like to receive another email when the book and lists are ready, please fill in the short form (via the [register] link) at the site.
[Note: this message is being sent to you as a registered user of the corpora at http://corpus.byu.edu]
In February, Routledge will publish the book Frequency Dictionary of American English: word sketches, collocates, and thematic lists, which is based on data from the 400 million word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). In addition to the printed version, it will also be possible to download an expanded electronic version of the dictionary from http://www.wordfrequency.info.
This frequency data will allow you to focus on English vocabulary in a systematic and organized way that is not possible with any other resource. Because the frequency data is based on the largest, most balanced, and most recent corpus of American English, you can be sure that the vocabulary represents what you will actually encounter in the “real world”.
The downloadable versions of the dictionary will include:
● frequency-ranked lists of the top 20,000 lemmas/words in English
● 20-30 collocates (nearby words) for each entry, which give valuable insight into meaning and usage (up to 300 collocates per entry are available in some versions)
● synonyms (for most words), which give additional insight into meaning
● indications of genre variation (e.g. more frequent in spoken, fiction, newspapers, or academic)
● other frequency and distributional information
Three examples (from among 20,000 in the expanded frequency lists) are the following:
1421 blow v
noun wind, whistle, air, nose, smoke, breeze, face, hair, kiss, head, window, horn, candle, mind, storm misc away, through, across
out candle, window, breath, air, wind, smoke, knee, tire, match up building, plot, bomb, plane, car, bridge, wind, threaten off steam, head, roof, leg
● whoosh, gust, waft, puff || move, propel, drive, carry
27254 | 0.94 F
10129 shimmering j
noun light, water, heat, hair, sun, sea, surface, silver, glass, wave, color misc blue, white, across, above, green, golden, wear, red, dark, rise, yellow, beyond
● iridescent, sparkling, shining, gleaming, glistening, glittering
1555 | 0.90 F
18669 pathos n
adj full, human, genuine, pure, sympathetic, comic, final, deep, Greek, tragic noun humor, tragedy, comedy, sense, appeal, suffering, emotion, ethos, scene verb evoke, reflect, avoid, generalize, capture, experience, arouse
● sadness, bleakness, despair, tragedy, anguish
473 | 0.90 A
To learn more about the frequency dictionary and the frequency lists, please visit http://www.wordfrequency.info. If you would like to receive another email when the book and lists are ready, please fill in the short form (via the [register] link) at the site.