Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(http://corpus.byu.edu/coca). More details on this and related lists can be found at http://www.academ
The words belong to three categories, and these are described below.
B. (Technical / Domain specific: red: e.g. church) About 8,000 other words that occur at least thr
frequently in one of the nine domains of COCA-Academic (e.g. Law or Medicine or Technology) as wou
be expected (based on the size of that domain). For example, church occurs more than three times as
[Religion / Philosophy] domain as would otherwise be expected (based on the size of that domain).
C. (General: no color: e.g. remain) About 9,000 other words, which are not "academic" per se (e.g
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
most common word (lemma).
The words are further groups into "bands" of 500 words each
lion words of the COCA Academic texts Note that these are not general frequency lists of English, but rather
ound at http://www.academicwords.info. It will probably not include words that are found primarily in another g
For general word frequency lists of English, see http://www.wordfre
ine domains
ne domains