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General Service List

This resource was developed by Sheldon C.H. Smith at

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General Service List

Overview

The GSL, or General Service List, is a list of words which were chosen because they were thought

to be of greatest 'general' use to learners of English. How frequently they occur in English was one

factor which was considered when selecting the words. The original list was compiled by Michael

West in 1953. There were several problems with this list, and it was substantially revised in 1995

by John Bauman and Brent Culligan.

The original 1953 list had exactly 2000 headwords. Each of these headwords represented a word

family (e.g. 'you' is the headword of the family 'your, yours, yourself'). Bauman and Culligan found

that many words included in the word family should, in fact, be separate headwords (e.g.

previously 'efficient' was included under the headword 'effect', but now these are two separate

headwords). By separating out some of these words, the number of words in Bauman and

Culligan's version of the GSL expanded from 2000 to 2284 headwords.

There are around 600,000 word families in the English language, more than twice the number of

the next biggest language, German. However, although the GSL has fewer than 3,000 word

families, it covers around 80% of all words in written texts (90% of words in spoken English). It was

used as the basis of EFL course books, dictionaries, and graded readers for many years. This list is

also important for anyone using the AWL (Academic Word List). When compiling the AWL, Averil

Coxhead excluded the words from the GSL. However, many of these words are still good academic

words which students need to recognise and be able to use. Examples are example, difference,

although, purpose, comparison, intend, introduction, experiment. If you focus your vocabulary

study only on the AWL, you may be missing some important and more common words from the

GSL.

GSL (by frequency)

Below are the 2284 words in the General Service List (GSL). This list is in frequency order, which is

the way the words are presented by Bauman. This format is probably more useful for study than

an alphabetical list.

Number

(1-2284)

Frequency

Word

Related words

in GSL

Related words NOT in GSL

1 69975 the

2 39175 be been, is, are, was, were, am

3 36432 of

4 28872 and

5 26800 a an

6 26190 to

7 21338 in

8 20033 he him, his

9 12458 have has, had

10 11247 it

11 10790 that

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