In order to get the absolute best starter words, you should know which letters turn up the most in English. I reached out to the big brains at the Oxford English Dictionary -- you know, the ...

England's strategy for teaching children to read could be overloading them with superfluous words, researchers have suggested. The strategy recommends teaching them to recognise 150 words initially.

A web application that allows users to upload and analyze PDF documents. The tool provides instant text analysis including word count, character count, sentence statistics, and word frequency ...

In research, a “sight” word is simply any word that a reader can recognize automatically, said Shanahan. The lists in question are made up of words that have a high frequency in text, with the ...

I volunteer my own for consideration. While pregnant with my daughter I wrote a 295,233-word Google doc and read very little. What existed of my attention span was beamed toward texts about gestation.

The word of the year is intended to be "a word or expression that reflects a defining theme from the past 12 months." "Brain rot" was chosen by a combination of public vote and language analysis ...

Oxford University Press said on Monday that the evocative phrase “gained new prominence in 2024,” as its frequency of use increased 230 per cent from the past year.

The usage saw an increase of 230% in its frequency from 2023 to 2024. Psychologist and Oxford University Professor Andrew Przybylski says the popularity of the word is a "symptom of the time we're ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers examined the effects of vitamin K 2 on the severity, duration, and frequency of nocturnal leg cramps (NLCs) among older people.