Looking for a book or website that contains frequently used vocabularies?

Question

better have examples to further illustrate the vocabulary, though...

i wanted not only a list of words but including some examples of the word...

Answer 1

If you only wanted a list of words, the best would appear to be Moby Words. There are other Moby products, such as Moby Part of Speech, but they don't have examples to illustrate the words usage.

Perhaps the Wordnet database would serve your purposes better.

The site below has links to this type of resource.

Answer 2

English word frequency list

It is difficult to produce a useful report on the frequency of English words, because often there are two different words that have identical appearances (e.g. 'lead' the verb and 'lead' the noun; sometimes 'to' is a preposition and sometimes it's an infinitive verb marker). One of the more useful surveys of a large body of English material is the file ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/pub/bnc/all.num.o5.gz which is a survey of the British National Corpus, prepared and made available by the Information Technology Research Institute at the University of Brighton. The material that was surveyed includes millions of words of transcribed conversation, printed text, and lectures and oratory.

If we look at the 1996 version of this survey and add together items that are closely related -- for example, if we consider 'this' and 'these' as a single item -- we find that the following items are the most frequent, starting with 'the' which makes up 6.18 percent of the corpus:

6.18% the
4.23% is, was, be, are, 's (= is), were, been, being, 're, 'm, am
2.94% of
2.68% and
2.46% a, an
1.80% in, inside (preposition)
1.62% to (infinitive verb marker)
1.37% have, has, have, 've, 's (= has), had, having, 'd (= had)
1.27% he, him, his
1.25% it, its
1.17% I, me, my
0.91% to (preposition)
0.86% they, them, their
0.86% not, n't, no (interjection)
0.83% for
0.83% you, your
0.70% she, her
0.65% with
0.64% on
0.62% that (conjunction)
0.58% this, these
0.57% that (demonstrative), those
0.55% do, did, does, done, doing
0.51% we, us, our
0.50% by
0.47% at
0.45% but (conjunction)
0.44% 's (possessive)
0.41% from
0.40% as (many parts of speech)
0.37% which
0.37% or
0.31% will, 'll
0.28% said, say, says, saying
0.25% would
0.25% what
0.23% there (existential, in "there is ..." phrases)
0.23% if
0.23% can
0.22% all
0.22% who, whose
0.21% so (adverb / conjunction)
0.20% go, went, gone, goes
0.20% more
0.19% other, another
0.19% one (numeral)
0.18% see, saw, seen, seeing
0.18% know, knew, known, knows, knowing


The items listed above make up about 43% of the corpus.

This local link will take you to a portion of the survey giving the 3000 most frequent words. Each line consists of four items: number of times the word occurred, the word, its part of speech, and the number of files in which the word was found. Here is the README file from the ftp directory where the original files are housed:

README for ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/pub/bnc

Answer 3

wow i got to hand it to the guy above who wrote that novel of an entry.

Answer 4

challenging subject. try searching from the search engines. that may help!