Important Words

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Important Words
A1
Beginner
A2
Elementary
B1
Intermediate
B2
Upper Intermediate
C1
Advanced
C2
Proficiency
CEFR EF SET TOEFL iBT IELTS TOEIC (R&L)
< A1 1 - 10 - - -
A1 11 - 30 - - 120 - 220
A2 31 - 40 - - 225 - 545
B1 41 - 50 42 - 71 4.0 - 5.0 550 - 780
B2 51 - 60 72 - 94 5.5 - 6.0 785 - 940
C1 61 - 70 95 - 120 6.5 - 7.5 945 - 990
C2 71 - 100 - 8.0 - 9.0 -
  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. a
  4. about
  5. above
  6. across
  7. action
  8. activity
  9. actor
  10. actress
  11. add
  12. address
  13. adult
  14. advice
  15. afraid
  16. after
  17. afternoon
  18. again
  19. age
  20. ago
  21. agree
  22. air
  23. airport
  24. all
  25. also
  26. always
  27. amazing
  28. and
  29. angry
  30. animal
  31. another
  32. answer
  33. any
  34. anyone
  35. anything
  36. apartment
  37. apple
  38. April
  39. area
  40. arm
  41. around
  42. arrive
  43. art
  44. article
  45. artist
  46. as
  47. ask
  48. at
  49. August
  50. aunt
  51. autumn
  52. away
  53. baby
  54. back
  55. bad
  56. bag
  57. ball
  58. banana
  59. band
  60. bank
  61. bath
  62. bathroom
  63. be
  64. beach
  65. beautiful
  66. because
  67. become
  68. bed
  69. bedroom
  70. beer
  71. before
  72. begin
  73. beginning
  74. behind
  75. believe
  76. below
  77. best
  78. better
  79. between
  80. bicycle
  81. big
  82. bike
  83. bill
  84. bird
  85. birthday
  86. black
  87. blog
  88. blonde
  89. blue
  90. boat
  91. body
  92. book
  93. boot
  94. bored
  95. boring
  96. born
  97. both
  98. bottle
  99. box
  100. boy
  101. boyfriend
  102. bread
  103. break
  104. breakfast
  105. bring
  106. brother
  107. brown
  108. build
  109. building
  110. bus
  111. business
  112. busy
  113. but
  114. butter
  115. buy
  116. by
  117. bye
  118. cafe
  119. cake
  120. call
  121. camera
  122. can
  123. cannot
  124. capital
  125. car
  126. card
  127. career
  128. carrot
  129. carry
  130. cat
  131. CD
  132. cent
  133. centre
  134. century
  135. chair
  136. change
  137. chart
  138. cheap
  139. check
  140. cheese
  141. chicken
  142. child
  143. chocolate
  144. choose
  145. cinema
  146. city
  147. class
  148. classroom
  149. clean
  150. climb
  151. clock
  152. close
  153. clothes
  154. club
  155. coat
  156. coffee
  157. cold
  158. college
  159. colour
  160. come
  161. common
  162. company
  163. compare
  164. complete
  165. computer
  166. concert
  167. conversation
  168. cook
  169. cooking
  170. cool
  171. correct
  172. cost
  173. could
  174. country
  175. course
  176. cousin
  177. cow
  178. cream
  179. create
  180. culture
  181. cup
  182. customer
  183. cut
  184. dad
  185. dance
  186. dancer
  187. dancing
  188. dangerous
  189. dark
  190. date
  191. daughter
  192. day
  193. dear
  194. December
  195. decide
  196. delicious
  197. describe
  198. description
  199. design
  200. desk
  201. detail
  202. dialogue
  203. dictionary
  204. die
  205. diet
  206. difference
  207. different
  208. difficult
  209. dinner
  210. dirty
  211. discuss
  212. dish
  213. do
  214. doctor
  215. dog
  216. dollar
  217. door
  218. down
  219. downstairs
  220. draw
  221. dress
  222. drink
  223. drive
  224. driver
  225. during
  226. DVD
  227. each
  228. ear
  229. early
  230. east
  231. easy
  232. eat
  233. egg
  234. eight
  235. eighteen
  236. eighty
  237. elephant
  238. eleven
  239. else
  240. email
  241. end
  242. enjoy
  243. enough
  244. euro
  245. even
  246. evening
  247. event
  248. ever
  249. every
  250. everybody
  251. everyone
  252. everything
  253. exam
  254. example
  255. excited
  256. exciting
  257. exercise
  258. expensive
  259. explain
  260. extra
  261. eye
  262. face
  263. fact
  264. fall
  265. false
  266. family
  267. famous
  268. fantastic
  269. far
  270. farm
  271. farmer
  272. fast
  273. fat
  274. father
  275. favourite
  276. February
  277. feel
  278. feeling
  279. festival
  280. few
  281. fifteen
  282. fifth
  283. fifty
  284. fill
  285. film
  286. final
  287. find
  288. fine
  289. finish
  290. fire
  291. first
  292. fish
  293. five
  294. flat
  295. flight
  296. floor
  297. flower
  298. fly
  299. follow
  300. food
  301. foot
  302. football
  303. for
  304. forget
  305. form
  306. forty
  307. four
  308. fourteen
  309. fourth
  310. free
  311. Friday
  312. friend
  313. friendly
  314. from
  315. front
  316. fruit
  317. full
  318. fun
  319. funny
  320. future
  321. game
  322. garden
  323. geography
  324. get
  325. girl
  326. girlfriend
  327. give
  328. glass
  329. go
  330. good
  331. goodbye
  332. grandfather
  333. grandmother
  334. grandparent
  335. great
  336. green
  337. grey
  338. group
  339. grow
  340. guess
  341. guitar
  342. gym
  343. hair
  344. half
  345. hand
  346. happen
  347. happy
  348. hard
  349. hat
  350. hate
  351. have
  352. have to
  353. he
  354. head
  355. health
  356. healthy
  357. hear
  358. hello
  359. help
  360. her
  361. here
  362. hey
  363. hi
  364. high
  365. him
  366. his
  367. history
  368. hobby
  369. holiday
  370. home
  371. homework
  372. hope
  373. horse
  374. hospital
  375. hot
  376. hotel
  377. hour
  378. house
  379. how
  380. however
  381. hundred
  382. hungry
  383. husband
  384. I
  385. ice
  386. ice cream
  387. idea
  388. if
  389. imagine
  390. important
  391. improve
  392. in
  393. include
  394. information
  395. interest
  396. interested
  397. interesting
  398. internet
  399. interview
  400. into
  401. introduce
  402. island
  403. it
  404. its
  405. jacket
  406. January
  407. jeans
  408. job
  409. join
  410. journey
  411. juice
  412. July
  413. June
  414. just
  415. keep
  416. key
  417. kilometre
  418. kind
  419. kitchen
  420. know
  421. land
  422. language
  423. large
  424. last
  425. late
  426. later
  427. laugh
  428. learn
  429. leave
  430. left
  431. leg
  432. lesson
  433. let
  434. letter
  435. library
  436. lie
  437. life
  438. light
  439. like
  440. line
  441. lion
  442. list
  443. listen
  444. little
  445. live
  446. local
  447. long
  448. look
  449. lose
  450. lot
  451. love
  452. lunch
  453. machine
  454. magazine
  455. main
  456. make
  457. man
  458. many
  459. map
  460. March
  461. market
  462. married
  463. match
  464. May
  465. maybe
  466. me
  467. meal
  468. mean
  469. meaning
  470. meat
  471. meet
  472. meeting
  473. member
  474. menu
  475. message
  476. metre
  477. midnight
  478. mile
  479. milk
  480. million
  481. minute
  482. miss
  483. mistake
  484. model
  485. modern
  486. moment
  487. Monday
  488. money
  489. month
  490. more
  491. morning
  492. most
  493. mother
  494. mountain
  495. mouse
  496. mouth
  497. move
  498. movie
  499. much
  500. mum
  501. museum
  502. music
  503. must
  504. my
  505. name
  506. natural
  507. near
  508. need
  509. negative
  510. neighbour
  511. never
  512. new
  513. news
  514. newspaper
  515. next
  516. next to
  517. nice
  518. night
  519. nine
  520. nineteen
  521. ninety
  522. no
  523. no one
  524. nobody
  525. north
  526. nose
  527. not
  528. note
  529. nothing
  530. November
  531. now
  532. number
  533. nurse
  534. o'clock
  535. object
  536. October
  537. of
  538. off
  539. office
  540. often
  541. oh
  542. OK
  543. old
  544. on
  545. once
  546. one
  547. onion
  548. online
  549. only
  550. open
  551. opinion
  552. opposite
  553. or
  554. orange
  555. order
  556. other
  557. our
  558. out
  559. outside
  560. over
  561. own
  562. page
  563. paint
  564. painting
  565. pair
  566. paper
  567. paragraph
  568. parent
  569. park
  570. part
  571. partner
  572. party
  573. passport
  574. past
  575. pay
  576. pen
  577. pencil
  578. people
  579. pepper
  580. perfect
  581. period
  582. person
  583. personal
  584. phone
  585. photo
  586. photograph
  587. phrase
  588. piano
  589. picture
  590. piece
  591. pig
  592. pink
  593. place
  594. plan
  595. plane
  596. plant
  597. play
  598. player
  599. please
  600. point
  601. police
  602. policeman
  603. pool
  604. poor
  605. popular
  606. positive
  607. possible
  608. post
  609. potato
  610. pound
  611. practice
  612. practise
  613. prefer
  614. prepare
  615. present
  616. pretty
  617. price
  618. probably
  619. problem
  620. product
  621. programme
  622. project
  623. purple
  624. put
  625. quarter
  626. question
  627. quick
  628. quickly
  629. quiet
  630. quite
  631. radio
  632. rain
  633. read
  634. reader
  635. reading
  636. ready
  637. real
  638. really
  639. reason
  640. red
  641. relax
  642. remember
  643. repeat
  644. report
  645. restaurant
  646. result
  647. return
  648. rice
  649. rich
  650. ride
  651. right
  652. river
  653. road
  654. room
  655. routine
  656. rule
  657. run
  658. sad
  659. salad
  660. salt
  661. same
  662. sandwich
  663. Saturday
  664. say
  665. school
  666. science
  667. scientist
  668. sea
  669. second
  670. section
  671. see
  672. sell
  673. send
  674. sentence
  675. September
  676. seven
  677. seventeen
  678. seventy
  679. share
  680. she
  681. sheep
  682. shirt
  683. shoe
  684. shop
  685. shopping
  686. short
  687. should
  688. show
  689. shower
  690. sick
  691. similar
  692. sing
  693. singer
  694. sister
  695. sit
  696. situation
  697. six
  698. sixteen
  699. sixty
  700. skill
  701. skirt
  702. sleep
  703. slow
  704. small
  705. snake
  706. snow
  707. so
  708. some
  709. somebody
  710. someone
  711. something
  712. sometimes
  713. son
  714. song
  715. soon
  716. sorry
  717. sound
  718. soup
  719. south
  720. space
  721. speak
  722. special
  723. spell
  724. spelling
  725. spend
  726. sport
  727. spring
  728. stand
  729. star
  730. start
  731. statement
  732. station
  733. stay
  734. still
  735. stop
  736. story
  737. street
  738. strong
  739. student
  740. study
  741. style
  742. subject
  743. success
  744. sugar
  745. summer
  746. sun
  747. Sunday
  748. supermarket
  749. sure
  750. sweater
  751. swim
  752. swimming
  753. T-shirt
  754. table
  755. take
  756. talk
  757. tall
  758. taxi
  759. tea
  760. teach
  761. teacher
  762. team
  763. teenager
  764. telephone
  765. television
  766. tell
  767. ten
  768. tennis
  769. terrible
  770. test
  771. text
  772. than
  773. thank
  774. thanks
  775. that
  776. the
  777. theatre
  778. their
  779. them
  780. then
  781. there
  782. they
  783. thing
  784. think
  785. third
  786. thirsty
  787. thirteen
  788. thirty
  789. this
  790. thousand
  791. three
  792. through
  793. Thursday
  794. ticket
  795. time
  796. tired
  797. title
  798. to
  799. today
  800. together
  801. toilet
  802. tomato
  803. tomorrow
  804. tonight
  805. too
  806. tooth
  807. topic
  808. tourist
  809. town
  810. traffic
  811. train
  812. travel
  813. tree
  814. trip
  815. trousers
  816. true
  817. try
  818. Tuesday
  819. turn
  820. TV
  821. twelve
  822. twenty
  823. twice
  824. two
  825. type
  826. umbrella
  827. uncle
  828. under
  829. understand
  830. university
  831. until
  832. up
  833. upstairs
  834. us
  835. use
  836. useful
  837. usually
  838. vacation
  839. vegetable
  840. very
  841. video
  842. village
  843. visit
  844. visitor
  845. wait
  846. waiter
  847. wake
  848. walk
  849. wall
  850. want
  851. warm
  852. wash
  853. watch
  854. water
  855. way
  856. we
  857. wear
  858. weather
  859. website
  860. Wednesday
  861. week
  862. weekend
  863. welcome
  864. well
  865. west
  866. what
  867. when
  868. where
  869. which
  870. white
  871. who
  872. why
  873. wife
  874. will
  875. win
  876. window
  877. wine
  878. winter
  879. with
  880. without
  881. woman
  882. wonderful
  883. word
  884. work
  885. worker
  886. world
  887. would
  888. write
  889. writer
  890. writing
  891. wrong
  892. yeah
  893. year
  894. yellow
  895. yes
  896. yesterday
  897. you
  898. young
  899. your
  900. yourself