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**The 1000 most frequent Simple Wikipedia word list 2008**

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NGSL (1st 1000)

a • able • about • above • across • act • action • activity • add • after • again • against • age • air • all • allow • almost • along • also • although • always • among • amount • an • and • animal • another • any • appear • are • area • arm • around • art • article • as • ask • at • attack • author • away • baby • back • bad • bank • base • be • bear • because • become • before • begin • being • believe • below • between • big • bill • black • blue • body • book • both • boy • break • bring • brother • build • building • business • but • by • call • can • cannot • capital • car • career • carry • case • cause • cell • center • central • centre • century • certain • change • charge • child • church • city • claim • class • close • club • cold • color • colour • come • comes • common • community • company • complete • computer • consider • contain • continue • control • country • court • cover • create • cross • culture • current • damage • dance • dark • data • date • daughter • day • days • dead • death • decide • degree • department • describe • design • develop • development • die • difference • different • director • discover • disease • do • doctor • dog • down • drink • drug • due • during • each • early • easy • eat • economy • effect • either • election • end • energy • enough • enter • especially • even • event • ever • every • example • exist • eye • face • fact • fall • family • far • fast • father • feature • feel • female • few • field • fight • figure • film • final • find • fire • first • fish • fly • follow • following • food • foot • for • force • form • former • free • friend • from • front • full • function • future • game • general • generally • get • girl • give • given • go • good • government • great • green • ground • group • grow • half • hand • happen • hard • have • he • head • hear • heart • help • her • here • high • himself • his • history • hit • hold • home • hot • hour • house • how • however • human • i • idea • if • image • important • in • include • including • increase • industry • influence • information • inside • instead • interest • international • into • issue • it • its • itself • job • join • just • keep • kill • kind • know • known • land • language • large • last • late • later • law • lead • leader • learn • leave • less • let • letter • level • life • light • like • line • list • little • live • living • local • long • look • lose • lot • love • low • machine • made • magazine • main • major • make • making • male • man • many • mark • market • marry • material • may • mean • meaning • means • measure • meet • member • method • middle • military • model • modern • money • month • more • most • mother • move • movement • movie • much • music • must • my • name • named • nation • national • natural • nature • near • need • network • never • new • next • night • no • not • note • now • number • object • of • off • office • official • often • oil • old • on • once • one • only • open • or • order • organization • original • other • our • out • outside • over • own • page • paper • parent • park • part • party • pass • past • pay • people • per • perform • period • person • picture • piece • place • plan • plant • play • player • point • police • political • popular • population • position • possible • power • present • president • press • pressure • probably • problem • process • produce • product • production • program • project • public • put • race • range • reach • read • real • reason • record • red • refer • reference • region • release • remain • replace • report • represent • research • rest • result • return • right • ring • road • rock • role • rule • run • said • same • say • school • science • sea • season • second • see • sell • send • separate • series • serve • service • set • several • shall • shape • she • short • show • side • sign • similar • simple • since • sing • single • sister • site • size • small • so • social • society • some • someone • something • sometimes • son • song • soon • sound • source • space • speak • special • sport • stage • stand • standard • star • start • state • station • stay • still • stop • store • story • street • strong • structure • student • study • style • such • summer • support • system • table • take • talk • team • technology • television • tell • term • test • than • that • the • their • themselves • then • theory • there • they • thing • think • this • though • thought • through • time • to • today • together • too • top • total • town • trade • traditional • train • travel • tree • true • try • turn • type • under • understand • unit • university • until • up • use • used • usually • value • various • version • very • view • village • visit • voice • vote • wall • want • wanted • war • water • way • we • wear • week • well • were • what • when • where • which • while • white • who • whole • why • wife • will • win • with • within • without • woman • word • work • working • world • would • write • writing • written • year • you • young • your •

NGSL (2nd 1000)

actor • ad • ancient • army • artist • association • award • ball • band • battle • belong • bird • birth • blood • border • branch • bridge • brown • chemical • civil • coast • code • concert • council • county • cup • currently • defeat • distance • district • division • earth • east • elect • element • famous • federal • flow • football • forest • fruit • gas • gold • guide • hall • heat • heavy • hi • hill • ice • independent • instrument • island • king • lady • lake • left • length • literature • locate • mainly • map • mass • math • medicine • metal • minister • minor • mostly • mountain • museum • musical • native • north • northern • novel • online • originally • peace • physical • politician • pop • prime • radio • religion • religious • revolution • river • scale • scientist • sex • ship • soldier • south • southern • speed • square • stone • storm • studio • sun • surface • temperature • text • title • tour • tradition • troop • union • video • wave • weapon • west • wind • winter • wood • writer

NGSL (3rd 1000)

airline • album • belt • castle • champion • championship • classical • democratic • discovery • eastern • electric • empire • episode • flag • found • founded • gallery • god • golden • grand • guitar • independence • league • march • moon • mount • musician • ocean • opera • piano • planet • poet • port • prize • province • royal • singer • sir • species • string • symbol • territory • tower • unite • united • valley • van • web • western

Words not part of the NGSL : an analysis

WORDS
Off-list (i.e. NO NGSL words)
actress
airport
align
asteroid
atlantic
baseball
bass
bay
best
born
canton
cathedral
catholic
character
collège
commonly
communist
composer
cyclone
destroy
div
duke
dynasty
emperor
five
four
genus
h
ha
holy
hurricane
internet
isbn
jpg
k
kingdom
km
l
la
lord
m
million
municipality
muslim
mythology
n't
nazi
numb
o
opus
orbit
orchestra
organ
orthodox
p
pacific
painter
parliament
philosopher
pope
prince
publish
px
queen
ref
republic
roman
s
saint
san
satellite
seven
six
solar
soviet
st
sub
sup
ten
th
third
thousand
three
treaty
tropical
tv
two
website
won
PROPER NAMES
Off-list (i.e. NO NGSL words)
Adam
Africa
African
Alexander
America
American
April
Armenian
Asia
Atlantic
August
Australia
Australian
Austria
bay NOUN !
BC ABBREVIATION !
Berlin
Britain
British
California
Canada
Canadian
canton NOUN !
cathedral NOUN !
Catholic
Charles
China
Chinese
Christian
collège NOUN !
communist NOUN !
David
December
Doe
Dr ABBREVIATION !
Duke TITLE
Dutch
dynasty NOUN !
Edward
Egypt
Emperor TITLE
England
English
Europe
European
February
Florida
France
French
George
German
Germany
Greek
Harry
Henry
India
Indian
internet NOUN !
Ireland
Irish
ISBN ABBREVIATION !
Italian
Italy
James
January
Japan
Japanese
Jewish
John
Joseph
July
June
Jupiter
kingdom NOUN !
LA TOWN ABBREVIATION
Latin
London
Lord TITLE
Louis
Martin
Mary
Mexico
Michael
Muslim
Nazi
Netherlands
November
October
Orthodox
Pacific
Paris
Parliament INSTITUTION
Paul
Peter
Poland
Polish
Pope TITLE
Prince TITLE
Queen TITLE
Republic STATEFORM
Richard
Robert
Roman
Rome
Russia
Russian
San
Scotland
September
Soviet
Spain
Spanish
Sweden
Switzerland
Thomas
UK COUNTRY ABBREVIATION
USA COUNTRY ABBREVIATION
Washington
William
won
York
NON WORDS
Off-list (i.e. NO NGSL words)
al
b
BC ABBREVIATION !
bgcolor
c. circa
cfcfff
d. died, death
de
dfffdf
div
e the base of the natural system of logarithms; approximately equal to 2.718282...
E East
F Fahrenheit
ft feet
ft. featuring
g gram
h hour
ha interjection
ii
iii
iv
J Joule
k KB , kilobyte
K Kelvin
l liter
la note
LA Los Angeles CITY ABBREVIATION
m meter
n noun
N North
o interjection
p. page
px pixel ; post exchange :a store operated by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service on US Army posts
r
ref referee
ret retired
s second
S South
sub submarine ; substitute esp. substitute teacher
sup °To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
°To take supper.
t time ; ton
td
tr. transitive ; translator; <TR> HTML element
u the unified atomic mass unit, used to express atomic and molecular masses ; <u>, a now-deprecated HTML element denoting underlined text
v. version
von
W Watt ; West
x

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