NLTK Dolch Sight Word List

The 315 Dolch sight words (Dolch 1936), grouped by part of speech, distributed via NLTK.

Configs

Config	Words	Schema
dolch	315	word, pos
dolch-adjectives	46	word
dolch-nouns	95	word
dolch-verbs	92	word
dolch-adverbs	34	word
dolch-prepositions	16	word
dolch-pronouns	26	word
dolch-conjunctions	6	word

Schema

dolch — combined list with part-of-speech

Column	Type	Description
word	string	The sight word
pos	string	Part of speech (adjectives, nouns, verbs, …)

dolch-* — word only

Column	Type	Description
word	string	The sight word

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("nltk-data-hub/dolch", "dolch")         # all 315, with pos
ds = load_dataset("nltk-data-hub/dolch", "dolch-verbs")   # verbs only

Via NLTK

import nltk
nltk.download("words", hf=True)

nltk.corpus.words.words("dolch")             # 315 Dolch sight words
nltk.corpus.words.words("dolch-verbs")       # 92 verbs
nltk.corpus.words.words("dolch-nouns")       # 95 nouns

License

Public domain — Dolch (1936), published work now in the public domain.

Citation

@article{dolch,
  author  = {Dolch, Edward William},
  title   = {A Basic Sight Vocabulary},
  journal = {The Elementary School Journal},
  volume  = {36},
  number  = {6},
  pages   = {456--460},
  year    = {1936},
  doi     = {10.1086/457353}
}