List of easy American-English words: Revised Spache (1974).
Read more on the matter in Perera, Katherine. Linguistic Difficulty in Reading Material (Linguistics and the Teacher. Vol. 112).
You probably also want the formula.
npm:
npm install spachevar spache = require('spache');
spache.length; // 1063
console.log(spache.slice(0, 10));Yields:
[ 'a',
'able',
'about',
'above',
'across',
'act',
'add',
'afraid',
'after',
'afternoon' ]spache exposes a list of strings (Array.<string>).
- buzzwords — List of buzzwords;
- fillers — List of filler words;
- hedges — List of hedge words;
- profanities — List of profane words;
- dale-chall — List of familiar American-English words: New Dale-Chall (1995);
- weasels — List of weasel words.