* Blog 020 - English Word Frequency - Advanced Level

If the Wordcount frequency list referred to in my Blog # 016 - December 21, 2006, does not satisfy your appetite for this kind of information, your hunger may be addressed by visiting the site at the University of Lancaster in Britain, where word frequency of written and spoken English is measured in a serious way.

This site is a companion to a book written on the subject. The data is in fairly raw form but is useable, downloadable, and can be mined for useful insights into the usage and culture of the English language. Each list measures word frequency per million words and uses the British Corpus as the sample.

There are 28 frequency lists here, including both alphabetical and rank frequency, covering categories such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions, spoken English, written English, imaginative writing, information writing, conversational English, task oriented speech, and finally, all words.

This site provides a body of information that may be useful to students, researchers and writers seeking further empowerment of their English proficiency.

To reach this resource, click below:

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/bncfreq/flists.html


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