List of familiar 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>).
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