Verbs of the senses

Questions about this list

What is the verbs of the senses collection?

To glimpse, to savour, to eavesdrop: verbs of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and feeling. It holds 653 entries drawn from the 147,478 in AltF Lexicon.

How was this list of verbs of the senses put together?

Membership is computed from data the entry already carries, applied to every entry in the corpus, so the list regenerates correctly whenever the corpus changes.

What is the most common of the verbs of the senses?

air — it sits in the top commonness band of the words stored for this list. The list is ordered by commonness, so the words most readers already half know come first and the specialist tail comes last.

What is the longest word in this collection?

keep one's eyes skinned, at 19 letters. The average across the list is 1.8 syllables per word.

Does this page show every one of the 653 words?

No. 653 entries match the rule; the page carries the first 600 of them, ranked by commonness. The remainder are all still in the dictionary and reachable by search or by browsing A–Z.

• Words for people18,679Roles, trades, types and characters — the largest single file in WordNet's noun classification.
• Plant words17,783Trees, flowers, fungi, grasses and crops, as classified in WordNet's botanical file.
• Words for made things16,359Tools, buildings, vehicles, clothing, instruments — everything manufactured rather than found.
• Animal words14,320Every noun WordNet files under animals — species, groups, body plans and the words for what animals do to each other.
• Words for actions9,447Deeds named as nouns: the arrival, the refusal, the negotiation.
• Words for communication8,242Messages, documents, signals, genres and the names for ways of saying things.
• Words for states5,619Conditions rather than events — being ill, being at peace, being in debt.
• Words for places4,877Regions, landforms, addresses and the general vocabulary of where things are.
• Words for qualities4,802Properties as nouns: brightness, patience, density, cruelty.