There are a total of 1,448 Simple words compiled and organized in this comprehensive list. The selection includes everyday, high‑frequency, short or early‑acquired words drawn from corpora (SUBTLEX, COCA), Dolch/Fry and CEFR lists, and filtered for learner relevance.

Simple words are common, easy-to-pronounce vocabulary items used in everyday speech and early reading. They tend to be short, high-frequency, often monosyllabic, and acquired early by children and learners. The variety ranges from pronouns and prepositions to basic nouns, verbs, and adjectives. They are essential for comprehension, sentence building, vocabulary teaching, and clear communication.

Interesting and little-known facts about Simple words:
– The top 100 English words account for about 50% of all spoken and written tokens; the top 1,000 cover roughly 80–90%.
– Many of the most frequent simple words come from Old English/Germanic roots, while Latinate borrowings are often longer and less common in everyday speech.
– Word use follows Zipf’s law: a very small number of words dominate frequency, while millions of rarer words appear infrequently.
– Dolch and Fry lists remain standard in early reading programs; they target core simple words used across children’s books and classroom texts.
– An average adult knows about 20,000–35,000 word families, yet simple words make up the majority of daily conversational tokens.

Use the alphabetical index to browse simple words by initial letter. Each letter list shows columns: Word, Part of speech, concise definition (10–20 words), one-line etymology, corpus frequency rank, and learner level (Dolch/Fry/CEFR).