Top 5,000 lemma and the top 60,000 lemma sampled every 7th word from the COCA corpus (the largest and most up-to-date corpus on American English based on written and spoken English)
A Common English Lexical Framework, aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2) in a CLIL context.[1] See research base.[2]
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Davies, Mark, and Dee Gardner. A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates and Thematic Lists. Routledge, February 2010.
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