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)