Gordon feng
1 min readMay 1, 2017

How large is your vocabulary?

English Vocabulary Size Test 1: The 1st Thousand

If you know the following 20 words , we assume you know the 1,000 most frequent English words:

his

other

school

hand

home

often

whether

air

local

price

form

worker

short

seek

factor

determine

environmental

remove

weapon

far

If you miss one word among the above 20, you are barely counted as having a vocabulary size of 1000. If there are 2 or more words beyond your recognition, then you really need to go through this list of the 1,000 most frequent English words.

The Graded Word Book of 52,000 Words Book 1: The 1st Thousand

Too easy? Try Test 2