English vocabulary + pronounciation + definition

This project aims to provide easy-to-read and printable vocabulary list of the most common words of the English language with their meaning.

The lists are mostly based on data gathered from the oxford 3000, 5000 and 5000 exclusive lists.

The word lists contain the following points of data

• Spelling (text)
• Pronounciation (audio)
• Lexical spelling (text)
• Meaning (text)
• Example (text)

You can find data in /data in formats .pkl, .csv, .json Audio (10K files, 200MB) are archived in .zip files in /audio

Lists in /output are formatted alphabetically, by CEFR rating, random and viewable in .pdf and .html format.

TODO Audio integration

Folder structure

├── audio
│   ├── *_uk.mp3
│   ├── *_us.mp3
│   ├── ...
├── data
│   ├── df_concat.pkl
│   ├── df_definition.pkl
│   ├── df.pkl
│   ├── oxford_3000.csv
│   ├── oxford_3000.json
│   ├── oxford_3000.pkl
│   ├── oxford_5000.csv
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive.csv
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive.json
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive.pkl
│   ├── oxford_5000.json
│   └── oxford_5000.pkl
├── output
│   ├── oxford_3000_alphabetical.html
│   ├── oxford_3000_alphabetical.pdf
│   ├── oxford_3000_by_cefr.html
│   ├── oxford_3000_by_cefr.pdf
│   ├── oxford_3000_two_column_alphabetical.pdf
│   ├── oxford_3000_two_column_by_cefr.pdf
│   ├── oxford_5000_alphabetical.html
│   ├── oxford_5000_alphabetical.pdf
│   ├── oxford_5000_by_cefr.html
│   ├── oxford_5000_by_cefr.pdf
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive_alphabetical.html
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive_alphabetical.pdf
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive_by_cefr.html
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive_by_cefr.pdf
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive_two_column_alphabetical.pdf
│   ├── oxford_5000_exclusive_two_column_by_cefr.pdf
│   ├── oxford_5000_two_column_alphabetical.pdf
│   └── oxford_5000_two_column_by_cefr.pdf
├── format.ipynb
├── scrape.ipynb

Scraping

Selenium, beautifulsoup, requests, pandas

See scrape.ipynb

Formatting

Data in pandas dataframe

df ---pandas---> HTML ---pandoc---> pdf

df ---pandas---> tex ---LaTeX---> pdf

See format.ipynb

Resources and credit

Oxford 5000 list, online interface to lookup words, filter by CEFR level, listen pronounciation (US,UK) also shows meaning but only after clicking to a new page. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/wordlists/oxford3000-5000

dictionary by tusharlock10 https://github.com/tusharlock10/Dictionary with relevant stackoverflow thread https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41768215/english-json-dictionary-with-word-word-type-and-definition