Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · 1865
84%of this book is inside a 1600-word core English vocabulary
26,689words in the book
2,631different words
1,281beyond the core
Ranked #4 of 32 — easiest first.
The words to learn first
The most common words in this book that fall outside the core vocabulary. Names are left out; these are the ones that actually repay learning before you start.
- rabbit46×
- oh45×
- tone40×
- cat35×
- course26×
- upon26×
- shall25×
- ever22×
- jury22×
- till21×
- wish21×
- however20×
- tea19×
- sat17×
- hastily16×
- mad15×
- anxiously14×
- ought14×
- cats13×
- footman13×
How it starts
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?
Read it sentence by sentence
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