Selecting vocabulary: Academic word list Academic Word List Coxhead (2000). The most frequent word in each family is in italics. There are 570 headwords and about 3000 words altogether. For more information see The Academic Word List. For more practice see: Schmitt & Schmitt (2005), or the Compleat Lexical Tutor. If you have an iPhone or an Android phone and want to practise these words, you could