Common English Verb List

Word List: Common English Verb List

Below is the Common English Verb List word list containing 358 individual words. Click on a word to discover related lexical and grammatical information.

About This Word List

This word list contains a selection of 350 core English verbs. Core verbs are the most common verbs in the English language, and are essential for expressing a variety of communicative functions such as requesting, commenting, directing, asking, protesting, etc. This list was originally made available by Someya Yasumasa, and was extracted from his Business Letter Corpus (BLC), a one million word corpus of business letters from UK and US sources.

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