English Dictionary Hotlist

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This list combines extracts from the indices of both the Oxford English Dictionary American Heritage Dictionary.

No single source was used entirely in the creation of this list.

Guidelines

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  • Do not copy text from OED, AHD, or any copyrighted source. This is a requirement throughout Wiktionary.
  • It is not necessary to remove blue links from the list, although that is the favorite task for editors of such lists.
  • Remove blue links from the list only after all possible definitions are present in the Wiktionary entry. A given word on this list may have several separate entries in OED, each of which has several different definitions. For example: Wiktionary lists 93 definitions for the word "set", whereas AHD lists ~50 definitions, and OED lists at least 200 definitions.
  • If you are unsure about what to do with entries for obsolete terms, leave them alone for now and find other work to do. Alternatively, they may be moved to a subsection of the page, e.g. "Obsolete terms". While some users are against obsolete terms, others find them useful aids in reading old texts. There are plenty of other tasks to go around, so please avoid conflict in the list by discussing this on the talk page instead.
  • A list this large will take a few years to complete, so there is no rush. If 100 links were addressed each day, the list would be finished in eight years, four months, and twenty-two days.

Special characters

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  • Numerous entries in this list have special characters represented as letters inside curly brackets (such as g{amac}yatr{imac} for gāyatrī). These entries are from OED, and should be corrected as they are found. For example, {oe} would be replaced with œ.

Alternate spellings

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  • Several entries list alternate spellings in multiple ways, possibly by separating the spellings by commas, or with left parentheses. As an example, glittous, (-is means that there are at least two different spellings, glittous and glittis. It is easiest to simply check the OED entry for these to determine what the different spellings are (by reading the historical examples).
  • Parentheses may also imply optional characters.

See also

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The list

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Before any pruning, this list contained 306,390 individual entries, as well as thousands of alternate spellings. In order for these numbers to be correct, corresponding subpages should be updated (e.g. /L, /L2 etc.).

Letter Pages Initial Remaining
(as of 2015)
% completed
A A, A2, A3, A4 18045 6715 62.79%
B B, B2, B3, B4 15835 7278 54.04%
C C, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7 27379 12460 54.49%
D D, D2, D3, D4 15010 6129 59.17%
E E, E2, E3 10612 4182 60.59%
F F, F2, F3 10469 4384 58.12%
G G, G2, G3 9944 4878 50.95%
H H, H2, H3 10790 4817 55.36%
I I, I2, I3 12037 5458 54.66%
J J 2486 1061 57.32%
K K 3968 1910 51.86%
L L, L2, L3 9701 4415 54.49%
M M, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, M7, M8 20399 10365 49.19%
N N, N2, N3, N4 8071 3604 55.35%
O O, O2, O3, O4 9260 5626 39.24%
P P, P2, P3, P4, P5, P6, P7, P8 26392 21299 19.30%
Q Q 1716 829 51.69%
R R, R2, R3, R4 14589 8803 39.66%
S S, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8, S9 34446 16618 51.76%
T T, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 15034 13714 8.78%
U U, U2, U3 11474 5072 55.80%
V V, V2 5704 5527 3.10%
W W, W2, W3 8847 5430 38.62%
X X 253 55 78.26%
Y Y 2308 1791 22.40%
Z Z 953 356 62.64%
_Totals 306,390 182,018 40.59%

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