Wiktionary:BNC spoken freq 01a HW

This list includes all entries and variations of the letters A through E from the BNC1 separated by headword.

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Main Lists 1–1000, 1001–2000, 2001–3000, 3001–4000 Other lists BNC1 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed BNC2 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed BNC3 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed BNC4 Compressed, by headwords: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Compressed, by letter: A–E F–M N–R S–Z Only headwords: Long and Compressed

A

• a • an
• able • ability • abler • ablest • ably • abilities • unable • inability
• about
• absolute • absolutely • absolutist • absolutists
• accept • acceptability • acceptable • acceptably • unacceptable • acceptance • accepted • accepting • accepts • unacceptably
• account • accounted • accounting • accounts •
• achieve • achievable • unachievable • achieved • achievement • achievements • achiever • achievers • achieves • achieving
• across
• act • acted • acting • action • inaction • actions • actionable • acts • actor • actors • actress • actresses
• active • actively • activities • activity • inactive • inactivity • activist • activists • activism
• actual • actually • actuality •
• add • added • adding • addition • additional • additionally • additive • additives • additions • adds
• address • addressed • addresses • addressing • addressee • addressees
• admit • admission • admissions • admittedly • admits • admitted • admitting • admissible • admissibly • inadmissible • admittance • readmit • readmitted • readmitting • readmits • readmittance • readmission • admissibility • admissibilities • inadmissibility
• advertise • advertising • advertises • advertiser • advertisers • advertised • advertisement • advertisements • advertize • advertizing • advertizes • advertizer • advertizers • advertized • advertizement • advertizements • ad • ads • advert • adverts
• affect • affected • affecting • affects • unaffected • affectation • affectations
• afford • afforded • affording • affords • affordable • unaffordable
• after • afterward • afterwards
• afternoon • afternoons
• again
• against
• age • aged • ages • aging • ageing • ageism • ageist • ageless • ager • agers
• agent • agency • agencies • agents
• ago
• agree • agreed • agreeing • agreement • agreements • agrees • agreeable • agreeably • disagreeably • disagreements • disagree • disagreeable • disagreed • disagreeing • disagreement • disagrees
• air • airy • airier • airiest • airiness • airily • airless • airs • aired • airing • airings • midair
• all
• allow • allowance • allowances • allowed • allowing • allows • allowable
• almost
• along
• already
• alright
• also
• although
• always
• America • American • Americans • Americanise • Americanised • Americanising • Americanisation • Americanize • Americanized • Americanizing • Americanization
• amount • amounted • amounting • amounts
• and
• another
• answer • answered • unanswered • answering • answers • answerable • unanswerable
• any • anybody • anyhow • anymore • anyone • anything • anyway • anywhere
• apart
• apparent • apparently
• appear • appearance • appeared • appearing • appears • appearances • reappear • reappears • reappeared • reappearing • reappearance • reappearances
• apply • application • applications • applied • applies • applicable • applying • applicant • applicants • applicability • applicator • applicators
• appoint • appoints • appointed • appointing • appointments • appointment • reappoint • reappointed • reappointing • reappointments • reappointment • reappoints • appointee • appointees
• approach • approachable • approached • approaches • approaching • unapproachable •
• appropriate • appropriacy • appropriately • appropriateness • inappropriacy • inappropriate • inappropriately
• area • areas
• argue • arguing • argues • argued • arguable • arguably • unarguably • argument • arguments
• arm • armed • arms • unarmed • armful
• around
• arrange • arranged • arranging • arranges • arrangement • arrangements •
• art • arts • artist • artistic • artists • artistically • arty
• as
• ask • asked • unasked • asking • asks
• associate • associates • associated • associating • associative • associatively • associations • association • disassociate • disassociated •
• assume • assumed • assumes • assuming • assumption • assumptions • unassuming • unassumingly
• at
• attend • attends • attending • attended • unattended • attendant • attendants • attendance • attendances • attention • attentions • attender • attenders
• authority • authoritative • authoritatively • authoritativeness • authorities
• available • availability • unavailability • unavailable
• aware • awareness • unaware • unawares
• away
• awful • awfully

B

• b
• baby • babies • babyish
• back • backed • backing • backs • backbone • backwards • backward • backwardness • backwardnesses
• bad • badly • badness • baddy • baddies
• bag • bags • bagging • bagged • baggage • baggy • baggier • baggiest • bagginess • baggily
• balance • balancing • balances • balanced • imbalance • imbalances • unbalanced • unbalance • unbalances • unbalancing
• ball • balls
• bank • banked • banker • bankers • banking • banks • interbank
• bar • bars • barred • unbarred • barring
• base • based • baseless • bases • basic • basics • basically • basing
• basis
• be • am • are • aren • ain • been • is • isn • re • s • was • wasn • were • weren • being • beings • bein • twas • tis
• bear • bearing • bearings • bearable • unbearable • bears • bore • born • reborn • unborn • borne • bearer • bearers • unbearably • bearably
• beat • beats • beating • beatings • beaten • unbeaten • unbeatable • beater • beaters
• beauty • beautiful • beautifully • beauties
• because • cos • coz
• become • became • becomes • becoming
• bed • bedroom • bedrooms • bedroomed • bedding • bedded • beds
• before
• begin • began • beginner • beginners • beginning • beginnings • begins • begun
• behind
• believe • believed • believes • believing • disbelief • believable • unbelievable • unbelievably • believer • believers • unbeliever • unbelievers • disbelievingly • disbelieving • disbelieved • disbelieves • disbeliever • disbelievers • unbelief • unbelieving • unbelievingly • disbelieve
• benefit • beneficial • beneficially • beneficiary • beneficiaries • benefitted • benefitting • benefited • benefiting • benefits
• best • better • betterment • betterments
• bet • betting • bets
• between
• big • bigger • bigness • biggest • biggish
• bill • bills • billed • billing
• birth • births • birthdays • birthday
• bit • bits
• black • blacker • blackest • blackly • blacken • blackened • blackening • blackens • blackness • blacks • blackish • blacking • blacked
• bloke • blokes
• blood • bled • bleed • bleeding • bleeds • blooded • bloody • bloodied • bloodying • bloodies • bloodiness • bloodless • bloodlessness • bloodlessly
• blow • blew • blowing • blows • blown • blower • blowers
• blue • blueness • bluer • bluest • bluish • bluey • blues
• board • boarded • boarding • boards • boarder • boarders
• boat • boats • boated • boating • boatman • boatmen • boater • boaters
• body • bodies • bodily • bodied
• book • books • booklet • booklets • bookish
• both
• bother • bothered • bothering • bothers
• bottle • bottling • bottles • bottled • unbottled
• bottom • bottoms • bottomed • bottoming • bottomless
• box • boxes
• boy • boyhood • boys • boyish
• break • breaking • breakage • breakages • breaks • broke • broken • unbreakable • outbreaks • outbreak • unbroken • breaker • breakers
• brief • briefed • briefing • briefly • briefs
• brilliant • brilliantly
• bring • bringing • brings • brought
• Britain • British • Brit • Brits
• brother • brothers • brotherly • bro • bros
• budget • budgetary • budgeted • budgeting • budgets
• build • builder • builders • building • buildings • builds • built • unbuilt • rebuild • rebuilding • rebuilt • prebuilt
• bus • bussing • buses • busses • bussed
• business • businesses • businessmen • unbusinesslike • businesslike • businessman • businesswoman • businesswomen
• busy • busily • busiest • busier • busied • busies • busying
• but
• buy • bought • buying • buys • buyer • buyers
• by

C

• c
• cake • caked • caking • cakes
• call • called • calling • calls • caller • callers
• can • cannot
• car • cars
• card • cards
• care • cared • uncared • careful • carefully • careless • carelessness • cares • caring • carelessly • uncaring • carer • carers
• carry • carried • carrier • carriers • carries • carrying
• case • cases
• cat • cats • catlike
• catch • catches • catching • caught • uncaught • catcher • catchers • catchy
• cause • caused • causes • causing • causation • causative
• cent • cents
• centre • center • centerist • centerists • centers • centred • centered • central • centralism • centrally • centrality • centralities • centres • centrist • centrists • centralise • centralises • centralised • centralising • centralisation • centralized • centralize • centralizes • centralizing • centralization
• certain • certainly • certainty • uncertain • uncertainties • uncertainty • uncertainly
• chair • chairs • chaired • chairing
• chairman • chairmen
• chance • chanced • chances • chancing
• change • changed • changes • changing • changeable • unchanged • unchangeable • unchangeably • unchanging • changer • changers
• chap • chaps • chappie • chappies
• character • characteristic • characteristically • characteristics • characterize • characterized • characterization • characterizes • characterise • characterised • characterises • characterising • characterizing • characters • uncharacteristic • uncharacteristically
• charge • charged • uncharged • charges • charging • charger • chargers • chargeable • nonchargeable
• cheap • cheapness • cheaply • cheapest • cheaper • cheapen • cheapening • cheapened • cheapens
• check • checks • checking • checked • unchecked
• child • children • childish • childhood • childless • childlike
• choice • choices
• choose • chooses • choosing • chose • chosen • unchosen • choosy
• Christ • Christian • Christians • Christianity • Christendom
• Christmas • Christmases
• church • churches
• city • cities
• claim • claimed • claiming • claims • unclaimed • claimant • claimants
• class • classed • classes • classing • classless • classlessness • classy • classier • classiest • classiness • subclass • subclasses
• clean • cleaned • cleaner • cleaners • cleanest • cleaning • cleanly • cleans • cleanness • cleanliness • unclean • uncleanliness
• clear • cleared • clearer • clearest • clearing • clearings • clearly • clearness • clears • unclear • clearance • clearances
• client • clients
• clock • clocks • clocked • clocking • clocker • clockers • oclock
• close • closely • closeness • closer • closest
• closes • closed • unclosed • closing
• clothe • clothes • clothed • clothing • unclothe • unclothes • unclothed • unclothing • clothier • clothiers
• club • clubbed • clubbing • clubs
• coffee • coffees
• cold • colder • coldest • coldly • coldness • colds • coldish
• colleague • colleagues
• collect • collects • collecting • collected • uncollected • collective • collectively • collector • collectors • collection • collections • collectable • collectables • collectivist • collectivists • collectivism • collectivity
• college • colleges • collegiate
• colour • color • colored • colorful • colorfully • coloring • colorless • colors • coloured • colourful • colourfully • colouring • colourless • colours • coloration • colouration
• come • came • comes • coming • comings • comer • comers
• comment • commentaries • commentary • commented • commenting • comments
• commit • commitment • commitments • commits • committed • uncommitted
• committee • committees • subcommittee • subcommittees • committing • committal • committals
• common • commoner • commoners • commonest • commonly • commonness • commons • uncommon • uncommonly
• community • communities
• company • companies • co
• compare • comparable • comparably • comparability • incomparable • compared • compares • comparative • comparison • comparisons • comparing • comparatively
• complete • completed • uncompleted • completely • completion • completions • completes • completeness • completing • incomplete • incompletely
• compute • computation • computational • computationally • computations • computable • computer • computed • computerize • computerise • computerising • computerizing • computerises • computerizes • computerised • computerized • computerisation • computerization • computers • computing
• concern • concerned • concerning • concerns • unconcerned
• condition • conditional • conditionally • unconditionally • conditions • unconditional • conditioned • conditioning • conditioner • conditioners • unconditioned • conditionings
• confer • conference • conferences • conferencing • conferred • conferring • confers
• consider • consideration • considerations • considered • unconsidered • considering • considers • reconsider • reconsiders • reconsidered • reconsidering • reconsideration • reconsiderations
• consult • consultancy • consultant • consultants • consultation • consultations • consultative • consulted • consults • consulting
• contact • contactable • uncontactable • contacted • contacting • contacts
• continue • continual • continually • continuance • continued • continuity • continues • continuing • continuous • continuously • continuation • continuations
• contract • contracted • contracting • contractor • contractors • contracts
• control • controlled • controller • controllers • controlling • controls • uncontrollable • uncontrollably • controllable • uncontrolled
• converse • converses • conversed • conversing • conversant • conversation • conversations • conversational • conversationally • conversationalist • conversationalists
• cook • cooks • cooking • cookers • cooker • cooked • uncooked • cookery • cookeries
• copy • copying • copies • copied • copier • copiers • copyist • copyists
• corner • corners • cornered • cornering
• correct • corrects • correctly • correcting • corrected • correctness • correction • corrections • corrective • incorrect • incorrectly • uncorrected
• cost • costing • costings • costed • costs • costly • costless
• could • couldn
• council • councillor • councillors • cllr • cllrs • councilor • councils
• count • counted • uncounted • counting • countless • counts • countable • uncountable
• country • countries
• county • counties
• couple • coupled • uncoupled • coupling • couples
• course • courses
• court • courts • courtly • courted • courting
• cover • covered • covering • coverings • coverage • covers • uncover • uncovered • uncovers • coverlet • coverlets
• create • created • creates • creating • creation • creations • creative • creatively • creativity • creator • creators • recreate • recreated • recreates • recreating
• cross • crossed • crosses • crossing • crossings • crossly • crossness
• cup • cups • cupping • cupped • cuplike
• current • currents • currently
• cut • cuts • cutting • cuttings • uncut • cutter • cutters

D

• d
• dad • daddy • dads
• danger • dangerous • dangerously • dangers • endanger • endangers • endangered • endangering • endangerment • endangerments
• date • dates • dated • undated • dating • datable
• day • daily • daylight • days • midday • goodday • gidday
• dead • deaden • deadened • deadening • deadens • deadly
• deal • dealer • dealers • dealership • dealerships • dealing • dealings • deals • dealt • undealt
• dear • dearer • dearest • dearly • dears
• debate • debatable • debated • debates • debating
• decide • decided • decidedly • decides • deciding • undecided • decider • deciders
• decision • decisions
• deep • deepen • deepens • deepened • deeper • deepest • deeply • depth • depths • deepening
• definite • definitely • definitive • definitively • indefinite • indefinitely
• degree • degrees • deg
• department • departments • departmental • departmentally • dept • depts
• depend • depends • depended • depending • dependant • dependants • dependent • dependents • dependable • undependable • dependably
• describe • described • describes • indescribable • indescribably • describing • description • descriptions • descriptive
• design • designed • designer • designers • designing • designs
• detail • detailed • detailing • details
• develop • developed • developer • developers • developing • development • developments • developmental • developmentally • develops • underdeveloped • underdevelopment • undeveloped • redevelop • redevelops • redeveloped • redeveloping • redevelopment • redevelopments
• die • died • dies • dying • undying
• difference • differences • different • differently
• difficult • difficulties • difficulty
• dinner • dinners
• direct • directed • undirected • directing • directly • director • directors • directorship • directorships • directs • indirect • indirectly • directness • directnesses
• discuss • discussing • discusses • discussed • undiscussed • discussion • discussions
• district • districts
• divide • divided • divides • dividing • undivided • division • divisions • divider • dividers
• do • did • didn • does • doesn • doing • doings • don • done • doer • doers
• doctor • doctors • dr • doc • docs • doctoral
• document • documentation • documented • undocumented • documenting • documents
• dog • dogs • doggy • doggies
• door • doors • indoors • indoor • outdoors • outdoor
• double • doubled • doubles • doubling • doubly • redoubled • redoubles • redoubling • redouble
• doubt • doubted • doubtful • doubtfully • doubter • doubters • doubting • doubtless • undoubted • undoubtedly • doubts
• down • downs • downed • downing • downings • downward • downwards
• draw • drawing • drawings • drawn • undrawn • draws • drew • redraw • redraws • redrawing • redrew • redrawn
• dress • dressed • dresses • dressing • undressed • undress • undresses • undressing
• drink • drinks • drinker • drinkers • drank • drunk • undrunk • drinking
• drive • driven • undriven • driver • drivers • drives • driveway • driving • drove
• drop • dropped • dropping • droppings • drops • droplet • droplets
• dry • dried • dries • driest • dryer • drying • dryly • drily • dryness • drier • driers
• due • duly • undue • unduly • dues
• during

E

• e
• each
• early • earlier • earliest • earliness
• east • eastward • eastwards • easterly • easterlies
• easy • easier • easiest • easily • easiness
• eat • ate • eaten • uneaten • eating • eats • eater • eaters
• economy • economic • economical • economically • economics • economies • economist • economists • uneconomic • uneconomical • uneconomically • economise • economises • economised • economising • economize • economizes • economized • economizing
• educate • educating • educates • educated • educative • miseducated • educator • educators • uneducated • education • educationist • educationists • educational • educationally • educationalist • educationalists
• effect • effected • effecting • effective • effectively • effectiveness • effects • ineffective • ineffectively • ineffectiveness • ineffectivenesses • effector • effectors
• egg • eggs
• eight • eighteen • eighteenth • eighth • eighths • eighties • eightieth • eighty • eights
• either
• elect • elected • unelected • electing • election • elections • elects • elector • electors • electoral • electorally
• electric • electricity • electricians • electrician • electrical • electrically • electrics
• eleven • elevens • eleventh
• else • elsewhere
• employ • employed • employee • employees • employer • employers • employing • employment • employs • employable • unemployed • unemployable • unemployment
• encourage • encouragingly • encouraging • encourages • encouraged • encouragement
• end • ended • unended • ending • endings • endless • endlessly • ends • unending
• engine • engines • engineer • engineering • engineers • engineered
• English • Englishman • Englishmen • Englishwoman • Englishwomen • Englishes • England • Englander • Englanders • Englishness
• enjoy • enjoyed • enjoying • enjoyment • enjoys • enjoyable • unenjoyable
• enough
• enter • entered • unentered • entering • enters • entrance • entrances • entries • entry
• environment • environmental • environmentalist • environmentalists • environmentally • environments • environmentalism
• equal • equaled • equaling • equality • equalled • equalling • equally • equals • inequality • inequalities • unequal • unequalled • equalise • equalised • equalises • equalisation • equalize • equalized • equalizes • equalization • equaliser • equalisers • equalizer • equalizers
• especial • especially
• Europe • European • Europeans
• even • evenly • uneven • unevenly
• evening • evenings
• ever
• every • everybody • everyday • everyone • everything • everywhere
• evidence • evidenced • evidential
• exact • exactly • exactness
• example • examples
• except • exception • exceptional • exceptionally • exceptions • excepting
• excuse • excusing • excuses • excused • excusable • inexcusable
• exercise • exercised • exercises • exercising • exercisable
• exist • existed • existence • existing • exists • existent • nonexistent
• expect • expectancy • expectation • expectations • expected • expectedly • expecting • expects • unexpected • unexpectedly • expectant • expectantly
• expense • expenses • expensive • expensively • inexpensive • inexpensiveness • inexpensively
• experience • experienced • experiences • experiencing • inexperienced • inexperience • experiential • experientially
• explain • explained • unexplained • explaining • explains • explanation • explanatory • explanations
• express • expressed • unexpressed • expresses • expressing • expression • expressions • expressionless • expressionlessly • expressive • expressively • expressiveness • expressly
• extra • extras
• eye • eyes • eyed • eyeing • eyeful

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