Overview
The list, the coverage curve and every thread's findings.
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The research behind it
UA Vocab is the reader's edition of an open study on jakelawrence.xyz. Here is every part of it, and where to cite it.
- Words of modern Ukrainian counted
- 1.50 bn
- Lemmas on the list
- 12,000
- The first 1,000 cover
- 60.81%
- Stress checked, agreement
- 99.8%
The study's pages
Vocabulary test
120 yes-or-no words, guess-corrected: a rough count of the lemmas you know.
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Text profiler
Paste a text, see what share a learner at a level can read.
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Crosswalk
The two Borodin minimums read against the validated CEFR profile.
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Word lookup
Any word, any form: stress, level, gloss, audio and definitions in one answer, or GET /api/uk/lookup.
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Lemmatizer API
POST /api/lemmatize: headwords matched to this list's convention.
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Inside the study
The hub reads in four chapters. Each link opens its section.
Chapter 1
The list and its reach
Chapter 2
Levels
Chapter 3
Quality and forms
Chapter 4
Open data
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- The list, release v0.2.0CSV, JSON and an Anki seed, with SHA-256 checksums.
- The stress column, v1.0.2Every lemma's stressed form, with the adjudication log.
- pip install ukvocabThe published tables as a Python package, for notebooks and pipelines.
- Lemmatizer APIPOST any Ukrainian text, get headwords that match this list.
Cite it
Lawrence, J. (2026). Ukrainian Frequency: a lemma-based, coverage-graded open frequency list (v0.2.0). jakelawrence.xyz/research/ukrainian-frequency. Derived from UberText 2.0 (Chaplynskyi, 2023).
- 10.5281/zenodo.22823134Ukrainian Frequency: a lemma-based, coverage-graded open frequency list for modern Ukrainian (top 12,000, over UberText 2.0)
- 10.5281/zenodo.23092388Ukrainian Frequency: word stress for every lemma of the top-12,000 list (over ukrainian-word-stress, en.wiktionary and uk.wiktionary)
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The free course that teaches the validated words in order.
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The Lightning Course
A year-long plan from the alphabet to B2, with its own flashcard deck.
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Anki decks
One deck per level, from the same data as this site.
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