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2. Wikipedia : Language learning centre/5000 most common words

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   These are 1100 of the most common words in American English in order of usage. This can be a particularly useful list when starting to learn a new language and will help prioritise creating sentences using the words in other languages to ensure that you develop your core quickly.

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

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   For the second portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z. Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other region; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively.

4. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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   Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be) comprises all its conjugations (is, was, am, are, were, etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [5]

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

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   For the first portion of the list, see List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L). Asterisked (*) meanings, though found chiefly in the specified region, also have some currency in the other dialect; other definitions may be recognised by the other as Briticisms or Americanisms respectively. Additional usage ...

6. American English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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   American English has always shown a marked tendency to use nouns as verbs. [13] Examples of verbed nouns are interview, advocate, vacuum, lobby, pressure, rear-end, transition, feature, profile, spearhead, skyrocket, showcase, service (as a car), corner, torch, exit (as in "exit the lobby"), factor (in mathematics), gun ("shoot"), author (which disappeared in English around 1630 and was ...

7. Lists of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   This list has been split between: 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)

8. 10 American Words That Don’t Make Sense in the U.K. - AOL

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   The words and phrases that make up the average American's vocabulary may seem relatively easy to understand to those born in the States. But the art of "speaking American" can seem virtually ...

9. Category:American English words - Wikipedia

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   Articles that are specifically about words unique, or originated, in American English. Pages in category "American English words" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.