Words

Kevin's Word List Page

SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) is a collection of word lists split up in various sizes, and other categories, intended to be suitable for use in spell checkers. However, I am sure it will have numerous other uses as well.
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AGID is an Automatically Generated Inflection Database from an insanely large word list. My goal is for the non-questionable entries to be 100% accurate.

Top 1000 Words

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OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH
A super-simplified version of English invented in 1930 and intended to be the new Esperanto.

The 850 BASIC ENGLISH words

There are five main parts to the Basic English word list: operators, things (general), things (pictured), qualities (general), qualities (opposite)

Holy Bible in Basic English

1:1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
1:2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.