Oxford English Dictionary

 

Content:

37 million words from 2.2 million quotations in the OED, Old English-present

 

Access:

Students and researchers at BYU

 

Features:

  1. Search by word, phrase, alternates, substring, or user-defined (stored) lists of words

  2. Chart listings (totals for all matching forms in each century) and table listings (frequency for each matching form in each century, as above)

  3. Collocates searches, up to ten words left and right

  4. MI-ranked scores for collocates in each century

  5. Limits by frequency in particular centuries. For example, all words ending in –ly that occur at least five times in 1900s, but not 1700s or 1800s, or all phrases to * [uv]p(p)(e) in 1700s, not 1800s-1900s


 

Table display (frequency for each matching form in each century)
 

 


 

Chart display (totals for all matching forms in each century)