Vocabulary lists for language learning

This is a list of curated vocabulary lists for language study that I've collected as reference for testing purposes in the creation of an application that generates vocabulary words in various langauge. (Note: An earlier version of this application is described here.]

I'm grateful to the following people for helping me to compile this list: David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Francis Bond, Laurence Anthony, Marc Brysbaert, Mark Davies, Martin Krallinger, Muranova, and Robert Reynolds.

Last updated: July 5, 2020

Arabic

A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Tim Buckwalter, Dilworth Parkinson
Kelly (Arabic) [information]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina

Chinese

Kelly (Chinese) [information]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina

Czech

A Frequency Dictionary of Czech: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: František Cermák, Michal Kren

Dutch

A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Carole Tiberius, Tanneke Schoonheim
NT2Lex [information]
A lexicon for Dutch as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project
Credit: Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, Cédrick Fairon
Word knowledge lists [information, download]
List of words that native speakers know (based on prevalance value)
Credit: Marc Brysbaert, Emmanuel Keuleers, Paweł Mandera

English

A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates and Thematic Lists [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Mark Davies, Dee Gardner
Academic Vocabulary Lists [information]
Frequency list based on the academic portion of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Credit: Mark Davies, Dee Gardner
Academic Word List (AWL) [information, download]
List of 570 high frequency words found in academic texts
Credit: Averil Coxhead
Business Service List (BSL) [information, download]
List of ""core"" business words based on corpus of business-related texts
Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan
EFLLex [information]
A lexicon for English as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project
Credit: Luise Dürlich, Thomas François
English Word Lists [information]
A listing of a wide variety of English word lists: "General", "Academic", "Discipline", and "Formulaic"
Credit: Various (list mainained by Muranova)
EnglishProfile [information]
CEFR-level organized list of vocabulary items
Credit: Cambridge University Press
General Service List (GSL) [information]
List of 2000 high frequency words in English, as compiled by West (1953)
Credit: Michael West
General Service List (GSL) [information, download]
List of 2284 high frequency words in general English; slightly revised version of West's 1953 list
Credit: John Bauman, Brent Culligan
Global Scale of English (GSE) Teacher Toolkit (Vocabulary) [information]
Customizable vocabulary lists based on topics and grammatical categories
Credit: Pearson English
Kelly (English) [information]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina
New Academic Word List (NAWL) [information, download]
A list of ""core"" Academic English vocabulary based on the selected corpora of academic texts (spoken and written)
Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan, Joseph Phillips
New General Service List - Spoken (NGSL-S) [information, download]
A list of ""core"" English vocabulary based on the spoken portion of the Cambridge English Corpus
Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan
New General Service List (NGSL) [information, download]
A list of ""core"" English vocabulary based on the Cambridge English Corpus
Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan, Joseph Phillips
TOEIC Service List (TSL) [information, download]
List of words useful in preparation for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)
Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan
Word frequency data [information]
Frequency list based on Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
Credit: Mark Davies
Word knowledge lists [information]
List of words that native speakers know (based on prevalance value)
Credit: Marc Brysbaert, Emmanuel Keuleers, Paweł Mandera

French

A Frequency Dictionary of French: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Deryle Lonsdale, Yvon Le Bras
FLELex [information]
A lexicon for French as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project
Credit: Thomas Francois, Núria Gala, Patrick Watrin, Cédrick Fairon

German

A Frequency Dictionary of German: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Erwin Tschirner, Jupp Möhring

Greek

Kelly (Greek) [information]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina

Italian

Kelly (Italian) [information]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina

Japanese

A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Yukio Tono, Makoto Yamazaki, Kikuo Maekawa
Open MeSH ID mapping [information]
A partially-completed project to map MeSH IDs between English and Japanese for Open NLP
Credit: Yuka Tateisi

Korean

A Frequency Dictionary of Korean: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, Sang Kyu Seo

Mandarin Chinese

A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Richard Xiao, Paul Rayson, Tony McEnery

Multilingual

MeSpEn resource [information, download]
Bilingual lists of high frequency medical terminology for various language pairings
Credit: Marta Villegas, Ander Intxaurrondo, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Montserrat Marimon, Martin Krallinger
Resources for Evaluation of CEFRLex [information]
English, French, and Swedish correlated lists used in the evaluation of the various CEFRLex language lists
Credit: Johannes Graen, David Alfter, Gerold Schneider
TUFS common vocabulary list [information, download]
Parallel list of words used in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies language teaching
Credit: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Francis Bond)

Norwegian

Kelly (Norwegian) [download]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina

Persian

A Frequency Dictionary of Persian: Core vocabulary for learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Corey Miller, Karineh Aghajanian-Stewart

Portuguese

A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Mark Davies, Ana Maria Raposo Preto-Bay
Word frequency data [information]
Frequency list based on Corpus do Português
Credit: Mark Davies

Russian

A Frequency Dictionary of Russian: core vocabulary for learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Serge Sharoff, Elena Umanskaya, James Wilson
Kelly (Russian) [information]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina

Spanish

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Mark Davies, Kathy Hayward Davies
ELELex [information]
A lexicon for Spanish as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project
Credit: (unknown)
Word frequency data [information]
Frequency list based on Corpus del Español
Credit: Mark Davies
Word knowledge lists [information]
List of words that native speakers know (based on prevalance value)
Credit: Jose Aguasvivas, Manuel Carreiras, Marc Brysbaert, Paweł Mandera, Emmanuel Keuleers, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

Swedish

Akademiska ordlistor [information]
Academic word list of Swedish words
Credit: Håkan Jansson, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Judy Ribeck, Emma Sköldberg
Kelly (Swedish) [information, download]
Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike
Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi, Elena Volodina
SVALex [information]
A lexicon for Swedish as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project
Credit: Thomas François, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Anaïs Tack
SweLLex [information]
A lexicon for productive vocabulary for Swedish as a second/foreign language from the CEFRLex project
Credit: Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Ingegerd Enström, Lorena Llozhi, Peter Lundkvist, Gunlög Sundberg, Monica Sandell, Baptiste Degryse, Thomas François

Turkish

A Frequency Dictionary of Turkish [information]
Published book (Routledge)
Credit: Yeşim Aksan, Mustafa Aksan, Ümit Mersinli, Umut Ufuk Demirhan

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