Academic Word List for IELTS

Sublists of the Academic Word List

Each word in italics is the most frequently occurring member of the word family in the Academic Corpus. For example, analysis is the most common form of the word family analyse. British and American spelling is included in the word families, so contextualise and contextualize are both included in the family context.

Sublist 1 contains the most common words in the AWL. Sublist 2 contains the next most common words, and so on. There are 60 families in each sublist, except for sublist 10 which has 30.

Sublist 1 of the Academic Word List

analyse

analysed

analyser

analysers

analyses

analysing

analysis

analyst

analysts

analytic

analytical

analytically

analyze

analyzed

analyzes

analyzing

approach

approachable

approached

approaches

approaching

unapproachable

area

areas

assess

assessable

assessed

assesses

assessing

assessment

assessments

reassess

reassessed

reassessing

reassessment

unassessed

assume

assumed

assumes

assuming

assumption

assumptions

authority

authoritative

authorities

available

availability

unavailable

benefit

beneficial

beneficiary

beneficiaries

benefited

benefiting

benefits

concept

conception

concepts

conceptual

conceptualisation

conceptualise

conceptualised

conceptualises

conceptualising

conceptually

consist

consisted

consistency

consistent

consistently

consisting

consists

inconsistencies

inconsistency

inconsistent

constitute

constituencies

constituency

constituent

constituents

constituted

constitutes

constituting

constitution

constitutions

constitutional

constitutionally

constitutive

unconstitutional

context

contexts

contextual

contextualise

contextualised

contextualising

uncontextualised

contextualize

contextualized

contextualizing

uncontextualized

contract

contracted

contracting

contractor

contractors

contracts

create

created

creates

creating

creation

creations

creative

creatively

creativity

creator

creators

recreate

recreated

recreates

recreating

data

define

definable

defined

defines

defining

definition

definitions

redefine

redefined

redefines

redefining

undefined

derive

derivation

derivations

derivative

derivatives

derived

derives

deriving

distribute

distributed

distributing

distribution

distributional

distributions