User:Brian0918/Hotlist

English Dictionary Hotlist

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

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

Guidelines

• 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

• 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. Read through OED's list of Greek characters and other special characters to find the proper replacements. For example, {oe} would be replaced with œ.

Alternate spellings

• 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

• User:Visviva/Hotlist cited - a subset of missing entries from this hotlist
• User:Robert Ullmann/Missing
• User:HippieBot/Entries in Encarta online not in Wiktionary

The list

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%
_Others	others	244	0	100.00%
_Misspellings	Misspellings	407	407	0.00%
_Totals		306,390	182,018	40.59%

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