Downloading BNC word lists

These are zipped word lists made using WordSmith Tools. They won't open up in Excel, Word, Acrobat reader, etc. but can be read & understood by WordSmith Tools. If you want a paper or Excel copy, you can use WordSmith and then save as Excel, text, etc within WordSmith.

To use

a. download, saving it to your hard disk, e.g in c:\temp
b. unzip it (click here if you need Winzip). Inside there is the word list.
c. start WordSmith and use the WordList tool to open c:\temp\BNC_World.lst or c:\temp\BNC_index_2-5-word clusters.lst.

• downloadable wordlist of BNC World corpus (4MB zipped and 14MB unzipped)
• downloadable 2-5 word clusters of BNC World (43 MB zipped and full size is 191MB, for use with WordSmith 5 or greater)

You may also be interested in an English lemma list made in 1998 by Yasumasa Someya which "currently contains 40,569 words (tokens) in 14,762 lemma groups. It is still far from complete, but I hope you find the list useful in preparing your own more complete lemma list. If you have any questions or comments about this lemma list, feel free to contact me (ysomeya@gol.com)" This list is also zipped.