The 3rd 1000 onwards
The remaining 1000 lists were made by using COCA/BNC rankings in data kindly
provided by Mark Davies (Davies COCA BNC.xls) after removing my specially created
first 2000 word families.
Word families
The criteria used to make word families were based on Bauer and Nation’s (1993) level
6, which includes all the affixes from levels 2 to 6 (see Table 2).
The word families were developed over several years and low frequency family members
continue to be added to the existing families.