This spreadsheet contains the 20,000 or so most frequent words in 120 million words of t COCA Academic texts (corpus.byu.edu/coca). More details on this and related lists can be found at www.academicwords.info. The words belong to three categories, and the are described below.
ID band word PoS COCA-All COCA-Acad ratio disp range 3051indicate v56,87238,022 2.340.928
3041church n88,26638,153 1.510.805小腹疼痛是怎么回事
上海安亭3071least r134,25637,7070.980.969
The list contains the following three ts of words:
A. (Core academic: yellow: e.g. indicate) The top 3,000 "core academic" words (lemmas) in COCA-Academic (e.g. #305 yellow below). To be considered a "core academic word", it must:
1) Occur at least 50% more frequently in the academic portion of COCA than would otherwi be expected (per million words). In other words, 1.50 or higher in the [ratio] column.
2) Have a good "dispersion" [disp column] across the nine domains of academic (a Juilland "d" measure of at least 0.80, for tho who know what that means)
3) Have at least 20% of the "expected" frequency in at least ven of the nine domains
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4) Not occur more than three times as much as "expected" in any of the nine domains
B. (Technical / Domain specific: red: e.g. church)About 8,000 other words that occur at least three times as frequently in one of the nine domains of COCA-Academic (e.g. Law or Medicine or Technology) as would otherwi be expected (bad on the size of that domain). For example, church occurs more than three times as frequently in [Religion / Philosophy] domain as would otherwi be expected (bad on the size of that domain).
肾囊肿是怎么回事C. (General: no color: e.g. remain) About 9,000 other words, which are not "academic" per (e.g. the, people, new,least), but which are in the top 20,000 lemmas of COCA-Academic (e.g. #307 "least").
The ID column shows the rank order of the word (lemma) in COCA-Academic. For example,
indicate is the 305th most common word (lemma).
The words are further groups into "bands" of 500 words each
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Note that the are not general frequent lists of English, but rather just
academic English. It will probably not include words that are found
primarily in another genre, such as fiction. For general word frequency
lists of English, e www.wordfrequency.info.
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