A brief step by step instruction to look up words on Word and Phrase (COCA) and Vacab Profile on Lextutor

1. http://corpus.byu.edu/coca

2. http://www.wordandphrase.info

3. Type this
Read this.

4. Corpus based Vocabulary worksheet

5. If I ask you to make a sentence
with “cuddle”, what would your
sentence be?

6. He cuddles her.

7. Where do we cuddle?
Who do we cuddle with?
Let’s check the corpus.

8. The word “cuddle”
appears more in
fictions and
magazines.
cuddle as “verb” ranks 15095

9. Collocates are:
the most frequent nearby words
1. Where? Bed and couch,
2. Who? baby, dog, girl, cat, bear,
husband, and infant
3. What? arms, lap, and leg

10. 6. She took Sapphire into her arms and cuddled her.
8. The Sullivans liked to hold Jack in their arms and cuddle him to sleep.
cuddle + arm
Here are the
concordance
entries:

11. 1. Alyssa is curled up in bed, cuddling a stuffed bear.
4. He got back in bed and cuddled her close to him.
cuddle + bed

12. Word Frequency

13. Which word is more frequently used?
wink
splash
stretch
creep

15. “hug”
Hug as “verb” ranks 3888
The word “hug”
appears more in
fictions.

16. http://lextutor.ca

20. Vocabulary Profiler

21. Vocabulary Profile Output

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