Lists of English words explained

The following articles list English words that share certain features in common.

Lists of words

With unusual spelling

• English words without vowels
• List of English words containing Q not followed by U
• List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

By formation

• List of English apocopations
• List of English back-formations
• List of portmanteaus
• List of retronyms
• List of words ending in ology
• -graphy
• -ism

By pronunciation

• List of English words without rhymes
• List of the longest English words with one syllable
• List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations
• List of onomatopoeias

By provenance

• List of calques
• Lists of English words by country or language of origin

By part of speech

• List of collective nouns
• List of English auxiliary verbs
• List of English copulae
• List of English determiners
• List of English irregular verbs
• List of English prepositions
• List of eponymous adjectives in English
• Post-positive adjective

Regionalisms

• List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom
• List of British words not widely used in the United States
• List of South African English regionalisms

See also

• List of English-language idioms
  • List of 19th-century English language idioms
• List of kennings
• List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
• List of Newspeak words
• Longest word in English

Articles about English word lists

• Academic Word List
• Collins Scrabble Words
• Dolch word list
• General Service List
• NASPA Word List (formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List)
• New General Service List