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  2. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; 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

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    to rent out (as real property, and denoting the transaction from the owner's perspective); Tenants "take" or "rent" the property being let. *("rooms to let") (n.) the act of renting; rented premises (let out) to reveal allow, give permission. leave (as in let him be or let it be) ease (as in let up on the accelerator) indicate (as in don't let on)

  4. Lists of English words by country or language of origin

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    List of English words of Italian origin. List of Italian musical terms used in English; List of English words of Japanese origin; List of English words of Korean origin; List of Latin words with English derivatives; List of English words of Malay origin; List of English words of Māori origin; List of English words of Niger-Congo origin

  5. New General Service List - Wikipedia

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    The New General Service List (NGSL) is a list of 2,809 words [1] claimed to be a list of words that second language learners of the English language are most likely to meet in their daily lives. It was published by Dr. Charles Browne, Dr. Brent Culligan and Joseph Phillips in March 2013 and updated in 2016 and 2023.

  6. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  8. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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    The following list, of about 350 words, is based on documented lists [4] [10] of the top 100, 200, or 400 [3] most commonly misspelled words in all variants of the English language, rather than listing every conceivable misspelled word. Some words are followed by examples of misspellings:

  9. Word list - Wikipedia

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    It includes the F.F.1 list with 1,500 high-frequency words, completed by a later F.F.2 list with 1,700 mid-frequency words, and the most used syntax rules. [12] It is claimed that 70 grammatical words constitute 50% of the communicatives sentence, [13] [14] while 3,680 words make about 95~98% of coverage. [15] A list of 3,000 frequent words is ...