AROUND 250 WORDS

The First 100 & 200 most commonly used words charts

http://www.edgalaxy.com/journal/2012/8/11/the-first-100-200-most-commonly-used-words-charts.html

200 most frequent words (types) - Willis- ELT

http://www.willis-elt.co.uk/downloads/IATEFL_DW.doc

The 200 Most Common Words in English

http://www.teacherjoe.us/Vocab200.html

200 first words from the Lexiteria English Word Frequency 2010

https://lexiteria.com/word_frequency/english_word_frequency_list.html

Swadesh 207 List

http://www.pamanyungan.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SwadeshSemField.pdf

Essential Spelling List

https://www.kns.school.nz/files/1ac8051de911005f/folders/3/Essential_Word_Lists.pdf

Top 250 English Words

http://www.anglik.net/english250.htm

Core Vocabulary : Australian Word Frequency List (263 words)

https://www.rockybay.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/4-Core-Vocabulary-Australian-Word-Frequency-List.pdf

Top 300 Most Common English Words

https://www.eslkidstuff.com/wordlists/WordList300.pdf

300 Most Common Sight-Words

http://www.hkjs.edu.hk/~hkjspri/english-sightwords.pdf

Top 300 high frequency words

http://www.wellington.trafford.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/top-300-high-frequency-words.pdf

300 Most Frequently Used Words in Rank Order

https://www.literacyunion.org/uploads/9/7/7/8/97780406/300frequentwords.pdf

Letters and sounds: High Frequency Words Checklist (300 words)

http://www.cjsdorset.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HFW-List.pdf

Top 300 Most Common English Words

[https://www.eslkidstuff.com/wordlists/WordList300.pdf](https://www.eslkidstuff.com/wordlists/WordList300.pdf

300 Most Common Sight-Words

https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/assets/media/images/pdfs/SightWord_List_1-300.pdf Oxford WordList (307 words)

http://lib.oup.com.au/primary/oxford_wordlist/research/Oxford_Wordlist.pdf

Dolch Word Lists (all 220 words and 95 nouns)

http://www.mrsperkins.com/dolch.htm

Semantic Primes NSM / Toki Pona / Swadesh

http://conlang.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/Clifford-Handout.doc

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NOTA BENE

  • CORE VOCABULARY OF SOME 200 WORDS

https://ello.co/jansegers/post/sjsbpify5oe7cq9nir-4fg

  • You only need ~200 words to talk about everyday things

http://web.archive.org/web/20150212015205/http://funwithlanguages.tumblr.com:80/post/105572981908/you-only-need-200-words-to-talk-about-everyday

  • What You Can Do With The Most Common 300 Words In A Foreign Language?

https://www.fluentin3months.com/most-common-300-words/

  • You can say a surprising amount with ~300 words

http://funwithlanguages.tumblr.com/post/105572981908/you-can-say-a-surprising-amount-with-300-words

  • Learn these words first

http://learnthesewordsfirst.com/

  • Earth Minimal

http://www.ebtx.com/lang/eminfrm.htm

  • Global English, Minimal English

http://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/hrc/u78/Global_English_Minimal_English%20position%20papers.pdf

  • A LIST OF THE COMMONEST ENGLISH WORDS, DECLINABLE AND INDECLINABLE (Thomas Prendergast | 1864)

https://ello.co/jansegers/post/w56_a6dgp3lq3z5nhj7ejq