English words 8,001–12,000: the “Near-native” band
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4,000 English words ranked 8,001–12,000 by frequency — the “Near-native” band. A learner who knows them can read texts pinned to this band with about 95% of the words already familiar.
- absorbed
- admin
- affection
- airplane
- altitude
- athens
- attributes
- baked
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- betty
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- expressions
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- gabriel
- garlic
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- illustration
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- indicator
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- jamaica
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- senses
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- tenth
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- wikipedia
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- ♫
- accountability
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- firearms
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- fury
- gb
- genocide
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- gibson
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- vault
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- accessed
- adverse
- aiming
- allah
- alumni
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- aye
- bastard
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- cellular
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- garcia
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- homer
- hon
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- imprisonment
- indonesian
- irs
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- jenny
- ji
- lacks
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- monroe
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- mvp
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- obamacare
- onion
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- peru
- phrases
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- positively
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- sd
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- incomplete
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- utter
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- sage
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- compression
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- confess
- confined
- congregation
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- dana
- declaring
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- despair
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- fellows
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- indianapolis
- infinity
- intentionally
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- numbered
- offerings
- overlooked
- pardon
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- replay
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- rooted
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- stimulus
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- structured
- sunrise
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- tags
- tapes
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- narrator
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- destined
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- enforced
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- explosives
- faction
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- feathers
- fixtures
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- harmless
- hearings
- hesitate
- hid
- hips
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- hygiene
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- imaginary
- imprisoned
- inconsistent
- int
- iso
- jared
- johnston
- judy
- kindergarten
- latino
- lopez
- loudly
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- mechanic
- megan
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- modify
- neglect
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- nz
- offenders
- oppression
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- phillip
- pictured
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- populated
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- positioned
- prejudice
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- probation
- projection
- promotes
- pumped
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- raven
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- rendering
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- reservations
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- shrimp
- similarities
- skins
- slopes
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- spokesman
- springfield
- stained
- stall
- starving
- strap
- subjective
- surround
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- sweeping
- swinging
- tearing
- traumatic
- trillion
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- vatican
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- watts
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- abbott
- aboriginal
- academics
- adopting
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- assumes
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- sane
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- █
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- acne
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- interacting
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- southeastern
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How is the Near-native band different from the ones just below it?
The bands below 8,000 cover the vocabulary most fluent speakers use in everyday conversation and general reading. The 8,001–12,000 band is where you find words that are precise and register-specific—terms more at home in formal writing, specialist commentary, or literary prose than in casual speech. Mastering them is the difference between understanding the gist of an article and catching every nuance.
If I already know words up to rank 8,000, how much of a typical text will I understand?
The ~1,500 most frequent words alone cover around 80% of everyday text, so by rank 8,000 you are already handling the vast majority of words you encounter. Extending your knowledge to 12,000 words fills in the precise, lower-frequency vocabulary that carries a lot of meaning in formal or literary texts, where those rarer words tend to cluster.
How does Beeblio help me study this band specifically?
When you open a text in Beeblio, words are colour-coded by frequency band. Words in the 8,001–12,000 range get their own highlight, so you can instantly spot which ones to look up or add to your review list. You can also filter your library to texts where this band does most of the work, making your reading practice more targeted.