Learn 600 of the Most Important English Nouns
The 600 nouns in this list are part of Charles K. Ogden’s compilation of 850 words, which he released in 1930 with the book “Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar.” This list is an excellent starting point for building vocabulary to converse fluently in English.
While this list is helpful for a strong beginning, more advanced vocabulary building will help you improve your English.
400 General Nouns
- 1. account
- 2. act
- 4. adjustment
- 5. advertisement
- 6. agreement
- 7. air
- 8. amount
- 9. amusement
- 10. animal
- 11. answer
- 12. apparatus
- 13. approval
- 14. argument
- 15. art
- 16. attack
- 17. attempt
- 18. attention
- 19. attraction
- 20. authority
- 21. back
- 22. balance
- 23. base
- 24. behavior
- 25. belief
- 26. birth
- 27. bit
- 28. bite
- 29. blood
- 30. blow
- 31. body
- 32. brass
- 33. bread
- 34. breath
- 35. brother
- 36. building
- 37. burn
- 38. burst
- 39. business
- 40. butter
- 41. canvas
- 42. care
- 43. cause
- 44. chalk
- 45. chance
- 46. change
- 47. cloth
- 48. coal
- 49. color
- 50. comfort
- 51. committee
- 52. company
- 53. comparison
- 54. competition
- 55. condition
- 56. connection
- 57. control
- 58. cook
- 59. copper
- 60. copy
- 61. cork
- 62. copy
- 63. cough
- 64. country
- 65. cover
- 66. crack
- 67. credit
- 68. crime
- 69. crush
- 70. cry
- 71. current
- 72. curve
- 73. damage
- 74. danger
- 75. daughter
- 76. day
- 77. death
- 78. debt
- 79. decision
- 80. degree
- 81. design
- 82. desire
- 83. destruction
- 84. detail
- 85. development
- 86. digestion
- 87. direction
- 88. discovery
- 89. discussion
- 90. disease
- 91. disgust
- 92. distance
- 93. distribution
- 94. division
- 95. doubt
- 96. drink
- 97. driving
- 98. dust
- 99. earth
- 100. edge
- 101. education
- 102. effect
- 103. end
- 104. error
- 105. event
- 106. example
- 107. exchange
- 108. existence
- 109. expansion
- 110. experience
- 111. expert
- 112. fact
- 113. fall
- 114. family
- 115. father
- 116. fear
- 117. feeling
- 118. fiction
- 119. field
- 120. fight
- 121. fire
- 122. flame
- 123. flight
- 124. flower
- 125. fold
- 126. food
- 127. force
- 128. form
- 129. friend
- 130. front
- 131. fruit
- 132. glass
- 133. gold
- 134. government
- 135. grain
- 136. grass
- 137. grip
- 138. group
- 139. growth
- 140. guide
- 141. harbor
- 142. harmony
- 143. hate
- 144. hearing
- 145. heat
- 146. help
- 147. history
- 148. hole
- 149. hope
- 150. hour
- 151. humor
- 152. ice
- 153. idea
- 154. impulse
- 155. increase
- 156. industry
- 157. ink
- 158. insect
- 159. instrument
- 160. insurance
- 161. interest
- 162. invention
- 163. iron
- 164. jelly
- 165. join
- 166. journey
- 167. judge
- 168. jump
- 169. kick
- 170. kiss
- 171. knowledge
- 172. land
- 173. language
- 174. laugh
- 175. low
- 176. lead
- 177. learning
- 178. leather
- 179. letter
- 180. level
- 181. lift
- 182. light
- 183. limit
- 184. linen
- 185. liquid
- 186. list
- 187. look
- 188. loss
- 189. love
- 190. machine
- 191. man
- 192. manager
- 193. mark
- 194. market
- 195. mass
- 196. meal
- 197. measure
- 198. meat
- 199. meeting
- 200. memory
- 201. metal
- 202. middle
- 203. milk
- 204. mind
- 205. mine
- 206. minute
- 207. mist
- 208. money
- 209. month
- 210. morning
- 211. mother
- 212. motion
- 213. mountain
- 214. move
- 215. music
- 216. name
- 217. nation
- 218. need
- 219. news
- 220. night
- 221. noise
- 222. note
- 223. number
- 224. observation
- 225. offer
- 226. oil
- 227. operation
- 228. opinion
- 229. order
- 230. organization
- 231. ornament
- 232. owner
- 233. page
- 234. pain
- 235. paint
- 236. paper
- 237. part
- 238. paste
- 239. payment
- 240. peace
- 241. person
- 242. place
- 243. plant
- 244. play
- 245. pleasure
- 246. point
- 247. poison
- 248. polish
- 249. porter
- 250. position
- 251. powder
- 252. power
- 253. price
- 254. print
- 255. process
- 256. produce
- 257. profit
- 258. property
- 259. prose
- 260. protest
- 261. pull
- 262. punishment
- 263. purpose
- 264. push
- 265. quality
- 266. question
- 267. rain
- 268. range
- 269. rate
- 270. ray
- 271. reaction
- 272. reading
- 273. reason
- 274. record
- 275. regret
- 276. relation
- 277. religion
- 278. representative
- 279. request
- 280. respect
- 281. rest
- 282. reward
- 283. rhythm
- 284. rice
- 285. river
- 286. road
- 287. roll
- 288. room
- 289. rub
- 290. rule
- 291. run
- 292. salt
- 293. sand
- 294. scale
- 295. science
- 296. sea
- 297. seat
- 298. secretary
- 299. selection
- 300. self
- 301. sense
- 302. servant
- 303. sex
- 304. shade
- 305. shake
- 306. shame
- 307. shock
- 308. side
- 309. sign
- 310. silk
- 311. silver
- 312. sister
- 313. size
- 314. sky
- 315. sleep
- 316. slip
- 317. slope
- 318. smash
- 319. smell
- 320. smile
- 321. smoke
- 322. sneeze
- 323. snow
- 324. soap
- 325. society
- 326. son
- 327. song
- 328. sort
- 329. sound
- 330. soup
- 331. space
- 332. stage
- 333. start
- 334. statement
- 335. steam
- 336. steel
- 337. step
- 338. stitch
- 339. stone
- 340. stop
- 341. story
- 342. stretch
- 343. structure
- 344. substance
- 345. sugar
- 346. suggestion
- 347. summer
- 348. support
- 349. surprise
- 350. swim
- 351. system
- 352. talk
- 353. taste
- 354. tax
- 355. teaching
- 356. tendency
- 357. test
- 358. theory
- 359. thing
- 360. thought
- 361. thunder
- 362. time
- 363. tin
- 364. top
- 365. touch
- 366. trade
- 367. transport
- 368. trick
- 369. trouble
- 370. turn
- 371. twist
- 372. unit
- 373. use
- 374. value
- 375. verse
- 376. vessel
- 377. view
- 378. voice
- 379. walk
- 380. war
- 381. wash
- 382. waste
- 383. water
- 384. wave
- 385. wax
- 386. way
- 387. weather
- 388. week
- 389. weight
- 390. wind
- 391. wine
- 392. winter
- 393. woman
- 394. wood
- 395. wool
- 396. word
- 397. work
- 398. wound
- 399. writing
- 400. year
200 Specific Nouns
- 1. angle
- 2. ant
- 3. apple
- 4. arch
- 5. arm
- 6. army
- 7. baby
- 8. bag
- 9. ball
- 10. band
- 11. basin
- 12. basket
- 13. bath
- 14. bed
- 15. bee
- 16. bell
- 17. berry
- 18. bird
- 19. blade
- 20. board
- 21. boat
- 22. bone
- 23. book
- 24. boot
- 25. bottle
- 26. box
- 27. boy
- 28. brain
- 29. brake
- 30. branch
- 31. brick
- 32. bridge
- 33. brush
- 34. bucket
- 35. bulb
- 36. button
- 37. cake
- 38. camera
- 39. card
- 40. carriage
- 41. cart
- 42. cat
- 43. chain
- 44. cheese
- 45. chess
- 46. chin
- 47. church
- 48. circle
- 49. clock
- 50. cloud
- 51. coat
- 52. collar
- 53. comb
- 54. cord
- 55. cow
- 56. cup
- 57. curtain
- 58. cushion
- 59. dog
- 60. door
- 61. drain
- 62. drawer
- 63. dress
- 64. drop
- 65. ear
- 66. egg
- 67. engine
- 68. eye
- 69. face
- 70. farm
- 71. feather
- 72. finger
- 73. fish
- 74. flag
- 75. floor
- 76. fly
- 77. foot
- 78. fork
- 79. fowl
- 80. frame
- 81. garden
- 82. girl
- 83. glove
- 84. goat
- 85. gun
- 86. hair
- 87. hammer
- 88. hand
- 89. hat
- 90. head
- 91. heart
- 92. hook
- 93. horn
- 94. horse
- 95. hospital
- 96. house
- 97. island
- 98. jewel
- 99. kettle
- 100. key
- 101. knee
- 102. knife
- 103. knot
- 104. leaf
- 105. leg
- 106. library
- 107. line
- 108. lip
- 109. lock
- 110. map
- 111. match
- 112. monkey
- 113. moon
- 114. mouth
- 115. muscle
- 116. nail
- 117. neck
- 118. needle
- 119. nerve
- 120. net
- 121. nose
- 122. nut
- 123. office
- 124. orange
- 125. oven
- 126. parcel
- 127. pen
- 128. pencil
- 129. picture
- 130. pig
- 131. pin
- 132. pipe
- 133. plane
- 134. plate
- 135. plough
- 136. pocket
- 137. pot
- 138. potato
- 139. prison
- 140. pump
- 141. rail
- 142. rat
- 143. receipt
- 144. ring
- 145. rod
- 146. roof
- 147. root
- 148. sail
- 149. school
- 150. scissors
- 151. screw
- 152. seed
- 153. sheep
- 154. shelf
- 155. ship
- 156. shirt
- 157. shoe
- 158. skin
- 159. skirt
- 160. snake
- 161. sock
- 162. spade
- 163. sponge
- 164. spoon
- 165. spring
- 166. square
- 167. stamp
- 168. star
- 169. station
- 170. stem
- 171. stick
- 172. stocking
- 173. stomach
- 174. store
- 175. street
- 176. sun
- 177. table
- 178. tail
- 179. thread
- 180. throat
- 181. thumb
- 182. ticket
- 183. toe
- 184. tongue
- 185. tooth
- 186. town
- 187. train
- 188. tray
- 189. tree
- 190. trousers
- 191. umbrella
- 192. wall
- 193. watch
- 194. wheel
- 195. whip
- 196. whistle
- 197. window
- 198. wing
- 199. wire
- 200. worm
