Everyday words 2: word list

432 words for grades 2 to 3. Everyday words beyond the Dolch lists, from open frequency lists.

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Adapted from Wiktionary's contemporary fiction frequency list and Simple English Wikipedia's list of 1000 basic words, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Word	Syllables	Estimated grade
brought	1	1
anymore	3	2
beautiful	3	2
office	2	2
although	2	2
easy	2	2
enter	2	2
perfect	2	2
cross	1	2
shock	1	2
stomach	2	2
spoke	1	1
tire	2	2
middle	2	2
yourself	2	2
breathe	1	2
except	2	2
appear	2	2
bathroom	2	K
movie	2	2
agree	2	2
offer	2	2
form	1	2
confuse	2	2
sign	1	2
immediately	5	2
arrive	2	2
deal	1	2
usually	4	2
case	1	2
scare	1	2
promise	2	2
state	1	2
bother	2	2
especially	3	2
expression	3	2
several	2	2
during	2	2
empty	2	2
coffee	2	2
forget	2	2
gotten	2	2
fear	1	2
press	1	2
became	2	2
trouble	2	2
beat	1	1
tone	1	2
control	2	2
nearly	2	2
consider	3	2
obviously	4	2
entire	3	2
direction	3	2
asleep	2	2
barely	2	2
remain	2	2
broke	1	1
lead	1	2
normal	2	2
somewhere	2	2
wake	1	2
business	2	2
admit	2	2
jeans	1	K
given	2	2
apartment	3	2
situation	4	2
stuck	1	2
possible	3	2
mention	2	2
perhaps	2	2
lose	1	1
besides	2	2
type	1	1
respond	2	2
daughter	2	2
serious	3	2
somehow	2	2
simply	2	2
trust	1	2
human	2	2
truth	1	2
area	3	2
concern	2	2
escape	2	2
search	1	2
attempt	2	2
son	1	2
within	2	2
led	1	2
memory	3	2
anger	2	2
bottle	2	K
busy	2	2
comment	2	2
exclaim	2	3
mirror	2	2
dear	1	2
sick	1	2
none	1	2
blink	1	2
spend	1	1
usual	3	2
worse	1	2
locker	2	2
important	3	2
favorite	3	2
pretend	2	2
settle	2	2
disappear	3	2
guard	1	2
doubt	1	2
visit	2	2
approach	2	2
study	2	2
eventually	5	2
hospital	3	1
summer	2	2
self	1	2
wife	1	2
position	3	2
heavy	2	2
broken	2	2
complete	2	2
space	1	2
pants	1	K
seriously	4	2
further	2	2
computer	3	1
bottom	2	2
hundred	2	2
sudden	2	2
college	2	2
handle	2	2
drove	1	1
whether	2	2
ahead	2	2
women	2	2
focus	2	2
repeat	2	2
present	2	2
surround	2	2
evening	2	1
bite	1	2
single	2	2
shadow	2	2
accept	2	2
wore	1	1
breakfast	2	2
animal	3	2
practically	3	2
inch	1	2
size	1	2
secret	2	2
company	3	2
view	1	2
suit	1	2
forever	3	2
despite	2	2
response	2	2
toss	1	2
beneath	2	2
welcome	2	2
laughter	2	2
angel	2	2
simple	2	2
neither	2	2
distance	2	2
comfort	2	2
lucky	2	2
special	2	2
certain	2	2
practice	2	2
grade	1	2
hardly	2	2
pale	1	2
button	2	1
refuse	2	2
slid	1	2
pillow	2	2
thirty	2	2
honestly	3	2
poor	1	2
motion	2	2
lightly	2	2
nobody	3	2
experience	4	2
period	3	2
dare	1	2
demand	2	2
comfortable	4	2
clearly	2	2
embarrass	3	2
bought	1	1
bet	1	2
perfectly	3	2
squeeze	1	2
worth	1	2
emotion	3	2
subject	2	2
pour	1	2
laid	1	2
lower	2	2
mile	1	2
pile	1	2
scene	1	2
forgot	2	2
silently	3	2
guitar	2	1
unless	2	2
waist	1	2
argue	2	2
twin	1	2
instantly	3	2
apart	2	2
narrow	2	2
opposite	3	2
action	2	2
forgotten	3	2
closet	2	K
twist	1	2
prepare	2	2
awake	2	2
certainly	3	2
tease	1	2
contact	2	2
wonderful	3	2
reveal	2	2
anywhere	3	2
itself	2	2
downstairs	2	2
possibly	3	2
mostly	2	2
husband	2	2
yours	1	2
club	1	2
include	2	2
invite	2	2
convince	2	2
absolutely	4	2
relief	2	2
apologize	4	2
remove	2	2
alive	2	2
receive	2	2
rise	1	2
tightly	2	2
waste	1	2
fallen	2	2
swallow	2	2
camera	3	1
deserve	2	2
doorway	2	2
image	2	2
aside	2	2
information	4	2
fair	1	2
player	2	1
ceiling	2	2
lit	1	2
nervously	3	2
shiver	2	2
horrible	3	2
station	2	2
hungry	2	2
thousand	2	2
involve	2	2
directly	3	2
level	2	2
creature	2	2
somewhat	2	2
blame	1	2
entrance	2	2
fresh	1	2
hiss	1	2
normally	3	2
machine	2	2
ruin	2	2
till	1	2
stumble	2	2
complain	2	2
everybody	4	2
truly	2	2
panic	2	2
extra	2	2
gesture	2	2
release	2	2
country	2	2
officer	3	2
careful	2	2
create	2	2
hotel	2	2
future	2	2
record	2	2
amount	2	2
restaurant	3	1
event	2	2
extremely	3	2
mistake	2	2
worst	1	2
plastic	2	2
member	2	2
choose	1	2
base	1	2
introduce	3	2
difficult	3	2
nor	1	2
male	1	2
million	2	2
sentence	2	2
serve	1	2
female	2	2
meal	1	2
support	2	2
effect	2	2
wedding	2	2
lesson	2	2
object	2	2
result	2	2
terrible	3	2
radio	3	2
report	2	2
shade	1	2
partner	2	2
length	1	2
common	2	2
dangerous	3	2
sell	1	1
popular	3	2
correct	2	2
public	2	2
television	4	2
feed	1	2
plenty	2	2
height	1	2
winter	2	2
condition	3	2
steal	1	2
lately	2	2
film	1	2
famous	2	2
forgive	2	2
private	2	2
exact	2	2
nature	2	2
spell	1	2
similar	3	2
cheap	1	2
expensive	3	2
skill	1	2
signal	2	2
contain	2	2
active	2	2
activity	4	2
anytime	3	2
army	2	2
basket	2	2
behave	2	2
birth	1	2
border	2	2
careless	2	2
central	2	2
century	3	2
cloth	1	2
copper	2	2
cupboard	2	2
decrease	2	2
deer	1	2
depend	2	2
develop	3	2
duty	2	2
earn	1	1
education	4	2
electric	3	2
examination	5	2
example	3	2
exercise	3	2
false	1	2
fever	2	2
flour	2	2
foreign	2	2
freedom	2	2
furniture	3	2
gentleman	3	2
grandfather	3	2
hammer	2	1
healthy	2	2
hobby	2	2
increase	2	2
iron	2	2
ladder	2	1
lazy	2	2
lend	1	2
medicine	3	2
method	2	2
model	2	2
modern	2	2
nation	2	2
needle	2	2
news	1	2
noble	2	2
per	1	2
photograph	3	2
piano	3	1
pleased	1	2
polite	2	2
prevent	2	2
produce	2	2
proper	2	2
provide	2	2
pupil	2	2
repair	2	2
rubber	2	2
salt	1	2
science	2	2
soup	1	2
structure	2	2
substance	2	2
successful	3	2
sugar	2	2
suitable	3	2
tennis	2	1
therefore	2	2
tidy	2	2
title	2	2
unit	2	2
useful	2	2
vegetable	3	2
wire	2	2
wise	1	2
zero	2	2

Grades are estimates of when a word is first taught. Source: Mined from two open lists (CC BY-SA): Wiktionary 'Frequency lists/Contemporary fiction' ( and Wiktionary 'Appendix:1000 basic English words' ( copied from Simple English Wikipedia). Words already in other lists were removed, and words unsuitable for children were filtered out by hand.

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