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The following articles list English words that share certain features in common.


Lists of words


With unusual spelling

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English words without vowels English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters , as well as , which may also be a consonant depending on context. However, outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do no ...
* List of English words containing ''Q'' not followed by ''U'' *
List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature This list of words that may be spelled with a ligature in English encompasses words which have letters that may, in modern usage, either be rendered as two distinct letters or as a single, combined letter. This includes ''AE'' being rendered as '' ...


By formation

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List of English apocopations This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language. A ;ab :abdominal muscle ''(slang)'' :abalone :abscess ''(slang)'' ;ad : advantage ''(tennis)'' :advertisement ;advert :advertisement ;addy :mail address ;admin :administrator :admin ...
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List of portmanteaus This is a selection of portmanteau words. Animals Hybrids * cama, from camel and llama * cattalo, from cattle and buffalo * donkra, from donkey and zebra (progeny of donkey stallion and zebra mare) cf. zedonk below * geep, from goat and sheep ...
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List of retronyms This is a list of retronyms used in the English language. A retronym is a newer name for an existing subject, that differentiates the original form or version from a subsequent one. Retronyms are typically used as a self-explanatory adjective fo ...
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-graphy The English suffix -graphy means a "field of study" or related to "writing" a book, and is an anglicization of the French ''-graphie'' inherited from the Latin ''-graphia'', which is a transliterated direct borrowing from Greek. Arts * Cartogr ...
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-ism ''-ism'' is a suffix in many English words, originally derived from the Ancient Greek suffix ('), and reaching English through the Latin , and the French . It means "taking side with" or "imitation of", and is often used to describe philosoph ...


By pronunciation

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List of English words without rhymes The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a ''perfect rhyme ...
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List of the longest English words with one syllable This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: ''scraunched'', ''scroonched'', and ''squ ...
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List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations, or because a better known namesake wit ...
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List of onomatopoeias This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds * Achoo, Atishoo *Chomp *Cough *Hiccup * Hum * Slurp Sou ...


By provenance

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English words first attested in Chaucer English words first attested in Chaucer, or special manuscript words of Chaucer, are a set of about two thousand English words whose first use found in existing manuscripts is credited to Geoffrey Chaucer.Cannon, pp. 231–233 This does not necess ...
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List of calques A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
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Lists of English words by country or language of origin The following are lists of words in the English language that are known as " loanwords" or "borrowings," which are derived from other languages. For Old English-derived words, see List of English words of Old English origin. * English words ...


By part of speech

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List of collective nouns In the English language, animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is '' The Book of Saint A ...
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List of English copulae This is a non-exhaustive list of copulae in the English language, i.e. words used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement). Because many of these copulative verbs may be used non-copulatively, examples are pro ...
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List of English irregular verbs This is a list of irregular verbs in the English language. Past tense irregular verbs For each verb listed, the citation form (the bare infinitive) is given first, with a link to the relevant Wiktionary entry. This is followed by the simple past ...
* List of eponymous adjectives in English *
Post-positive adjective A postpositive adjective or postnominal adjective is an adjective that is placed after the noun or pronoun that it modifies, as in noun phrases such as ''attorney general'', ''queen regnant'', or ''all matters financial''. This contrasts with prepo ...


Regionalisms

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List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom This is a list of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom. In Canada and Australia, some of the American terms listed are widespread; however, in some cases, another usage is preferred. * Words with specific American meanings tha ...
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List of British words not widely used in the United States This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred. * Words with spe ...
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List of South African English regionalisms A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
* List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L * List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z


See also

* List of English-language idioms ** List of 19th-century English language idioms *
List of kennings A kenning (Old English , Modern Icelandic ) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. This list is not intended to be comprehensive ...
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List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants i ...
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List of Newspeak words Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', by George Orwell. In the novel, the Party created Newspeak to meet the ideological requireme ...
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Longest word in English The identity of the longest word in the English language depends upon the definition of what constitutes a word in the English language, as well as how length should be compared. Words may be derived naturally from the language's roots or forme ...


Articles about English word lists

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Academic Word List The Academic Word List (AWL) is a word list of 570 English words which appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The target readership is English as a second or foreign language students intending to enter English-medium highe ...
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Collins Scrabble Words Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada. The term SOWPODS is an anagram of the two abbreviations '' OSPD'' (Official Scrabble ...
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Dolch word list The Dolch word list is a list of frequently used English words (also known as sight words), compiled by Edward William Dolch, a major proponent of the "whole-word" method of beginning reading instruction. The list was first published in a jou ...
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General Service List The General Service List (GSL) is a list of roughly 2,000 words published by Michael West in 1953. The words were selected to represent the most frequent words of English and were taken from a corpus of written English. The target audience was E ...
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NASPA Word List NASPA Word List (NWL, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, referred to as OTCWL, OWL, TWL) is the official word authority for tournament Scrabble in the USA and Canada under the aegis of NASPA Games. It is based on the ''Official Scrabb ...
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New General Service List The New General Service List (NGSL) is a list of 2,818 words (lemmas) claimed to be the core vocabulary of the English language published by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in March 2013. The words in the NGSL represent ...


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List of English Words Sorted Alphabetically
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