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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


By formation

* List of English apocopations * List of English back-formations * List of portmanteaus *
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 f ...
* List of words ending in ology *
-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 philo ...


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 rhym ...
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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 So ...


By provenance

* English words first attested in Chaucer *
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 ...
* Lists of English words by country or language of origin


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 ...
* List of English copulae *
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 ...
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List of eponymous adjectives in English An eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been derived are called eponyms. Following is a list of eponymous adjectives in English. Aâ ...
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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

* List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom *
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 ...
* List of South African English regionalisms * 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 This is a list of idioms that were recognizable to literate people in the late-19th century, and have become unfamiliar since. As the article list of idioms in the English language notes, a list of idioms can be useful, since the meaning of an i ...
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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 comprehensiv ...
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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 ...
* List of Newspeak words *
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 form ...


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 high ...
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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 ...
* Dolch word list *
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 ...
* NASPA Word List (formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List) * New General Service List


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List of English Words Sorted Alphabetically
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