THE CORE 1,000
Words, phrases
and their sources.
Two separate collections in each language: 1,000 frequent word forms and 1,000 practical everyday phrases.
Frequency, with context.
The order starts with the OpenSubtitles 2018 word counts published by Hermit Dave / FrequencyWords. We remove names, subtitle noise and entries that do not make a useful vocabulary card. The number on a flashcard is its position in this filtered collection.
A corpus is a sample, not a universal ranking. Film and TV dialogue differs from your everyday conversations. Conjugations, plurals and other word forms count separately. Portuguese uses the Portuguese corpus rather than the separate Brazilian Portuguese list; subtitles can still contain a mix of registers.
Meanings you can build on.
English meanings are adapted from Wiktionary data extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract, with editorial corrections and brief usage notes. A short gloss cannot cover every sense of a word. Use the original dictionary entry linked in each download for more detail.
The lists have not had a complete independent teacher review. You can edit a card in the app if another meaning is more useful to you.
Words in real life.
Each word has two or three short examples with English translations. We combine original teaching examples with selected bilingual sentences from ManyThings / Tatoeba. Corpus examples retain their sentence IDs and contributor credits under Example sources on the card, and in the downloadable data.
Tatoeba material is used under CC BY 2.0 France. Where a sentence was adapted, its attribution identifies the source; the English translation follows the sense used in that example. Portuguese teaching material uses European Portuguese.
Useful phrases, not a frequency claim.
Everyday 1,000 brings together greetings, questions, requests and short statements for everyday situations. It expands our existing phrase collection, preserving the original card IDs and learning history. This is a curated teaching collection, not a statistical ranking of the world’s most frequent sentences.
Use the lists yourself.
The adapted vocabulary data is available under Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0. Credit Hermit Dave / FrequencyWords, the Wiktionary contributors and Kaikki / Wiktextract, and Phil Fluent for the selection, grouping and adaptations.