Top 10 words with most OED entries? What do they have in common?
Here are the words with the most entries in the OED. See what they have in common below.
- set - 464 definitions
- run - 396
- go - 368
- take - 343
- stand -334
- get - 289
- turn - 288
- put - 268
- fall - 264
- strike - 250 Source
- They can all be used as phrasal verbs.
- All but one of these verbs ('turn') is irregular
Phrasal verbs (set out/turn into/set to/put off etc) do not follow conventional grammatical rules. This makes them particularly challenging for English language learners.
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