O.E.D. Ranked
O.E.D. Ranked is a podcast undertaking the ambitious and unconventional task of ranking almost every single word in the Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition CD-ROM Version 4.0, which includes 500,000 words with 2.5 million source quotations, along with 7,000 new words and meanings. It includes Vocabulary from OED Second Edition as well as all 3 Additions volumes.
The Official Rankings
Warning: The rankings are updated as the show is recorded.
We have collapsed the table out of respect for those who would like to avoid "spoilers."
| S | A | B | C | F | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| œstrogen Med. | Acronyms (Holistic) | Capital "A" | 900 number, n. N. Amer. | Abbreviations (Holistic) | |
| 101, a. orig. and chiefly U.S. | 1984, n. | a, v. | 24-7, adv. colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.) | a-, prefix | |
| aandblom S. Afr. | axolotl Zool. | aard-wolf | 911, n. N. Amer. | -a, suffix | |
| aard-vark | aa² Geol. | aaron² Herb. | a, a.² (indef. article) | Aaron's-beard Herb. | |
| aal | Aaron's Rod | a, prep.¹ | |||
| Aaron¹ | Aalenian, a. Geol. | ||||
| Aaronic, a. | |||||
| Aaronical, a. |
Active Tournament
This is the active word tournament:
There is no active tournament. See below.
Draft Entries
Some entries in the OED2ECDV4.0 are labeled as "Draft Entries," denoting entries that, as of the CD-ROM's release in June of 2009, were still to be considered for entry into the O.E.D. proper. With the completion of each letter set, a tournament occurs which pits all of the selected Draft Entries from that letter against each other. Some entries have Draft entries as addendums at the bottom of the definition proper. These are considered a part of the main entry and not drafts. Some Draft Entries may be dismissed out of hand for being too similar to other Draft Entries, or for being otherwise objectively irrelevant for inclusion. Old Draft Entries can be found by clicking the words Old Draft Entries.
| Draft Date | Word | Definition |
|---|---|---|
Excluditary Concerns
Some words will be excluded from the rankings on basis collated in this section of the wiki.
- Obsolete words are generally excluded from ranking, unless they are cool, in which case they are ranked and therefore made adsolete.
- If a word's definition just sort of tells you to see a different word and nothing else, it is excluded from ranking.
- Acronyms: See Abbreviations.
Assorted References
