wild – English Grammar Profiler

A search for nouns collocating with ‘wild‘ in the NOW corpus:

1 CARD 41920

This most common collocate is unlisted in the English Vocabulary Profile.  A google definition of ‘wild card‘:

  • a playing card that can have any value, suit, colour, or other property in a game at the discretion of the player holding it.
  • COMPUTING a character that will match any character or sequence of characters in a search.
  • an opportunity to enter a sports competition without having to take part in qualifying matches or be ranked at a particular level.
  • a player or team allowed to enter a sports competition without having to qualify or be ranked.
  • a person or thing whose influence is unpredictable or whose qualities are uncertain.

or have malnutrition or various lung challenges because of indoor smoke, 

2 ANIMALS 33219

In the English Vocabulary Profile (EVP) at A2:

A wild animal or plant lives or grows in its natural environment and not where people live.

These are places where wild animals and plants are evolving under our eyes very rapidly to suit these new, urban conditions.

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3 WEST 22142
blank 5 BREATH 17070 6 GAME 13139 7 MINNESOTA 10166

8 RIDE 9364 (EVP B2 very energetic and not controlled)

I was just on some wild ride where I thought that I was in love enough for both of us.

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9 ANIMAL 8682 10 WAY 8411 11 ATLANTIC 7990 12 SPECIES 7942 13 LIFE 7647 14 BIRDS 7503 15 BOAR 6928 16 SALMON 6803 17 PITCH 6779 18 COAST 6659 19 HORSES 6161 20 WORLD 5323 21 DOGS 4723 22 BOARS 4671 23 ELEPHANTS 4631 24 NIGHT 4503 25 TYPE 4490

26 WEATHER 4478

27 THINGS 4409 28 YEAR 4201 29 PEOPLE 4077 30 BUFFALO 4059 31 POPULATIONS 3996 32 SWINGS 3854 33 POPULATION 3831 34 CARDS 3792 35 TIME 3762 36 GARDEN 3752 37 SERIES 3748 38 SIDE 3621 39 TEAM 3585 40 FISH 3519 41 SPOT 3436 42 WINGS 3430 43 SEASON 3376 44 HORSE 3364 45 HUNT 3278 46 OATS 3266 47 COUNTRY 3252 48 PLANTS 3219 49 ROUTE 3170 50 LEAGUE 3041 51 YEARS 3019 52 CROWD 2970 53 PLACES 2955 54 FANS 2952 55 WEEK 2930 56 FLOWERS 2884 57 WEEKEND 2875 58 RICE 2854 59 BIRD 2815 60 DEER 2740 61 MAN 2724 62 GOOSE 2621 63 DOG 2588 64 DAY 2561 65 CELEBRATIONS 2517 66 GAMES 2512 67 CHASE 2502 68 TURKEY 2490 69 AREA 2489 70 PLAYOFF 2483 71 CHILD 2449 72 FOOD 2447

73 IMAGINATION 2420

74 RIFT 2385 75 FAUNA 2361 76 WITCHER 2332 77 FLORA 2330 78 FIRE 2288 79 BEASTS 2282 80 TIGERS 2253 81 HEART 2223 82 DAYS 2215 83 NATURE 2196 84 PIGS 2179 85 PLACE 2175 86 MUSHROOMS 2153 87 CATS 2144

88 ALLEGATIONS 2134

89 ROSE 2094 90 PARK 2085 91 CALL 2044 92 STATE 2015 93 CAT 1996 94 SHOW 1985 95 ELEPHANT 1981 96 STORY 1930 97 PARTY 1894 98 BILL 1881 99 THING 1872

100 VIRUS 1831

_VV wild

1 WENT WILD 5147

The crowd went wild.

Milk

2  RUN WILD 5016

There are two entries at C2 in the EVP for ‘run wild‘:

  1. If someone, especially a child, runs wild, they behave as they want to and no one controls them.
  2. If someone’s imagination runs wild, they are not able to control their thoughts.

It‘s heartbreaking the way your mother lets you run wild.

So, in order to do that, I have to let my imagination run wild.

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3 GO WILD 4303 4 GONE WILD 2379

5 RUNNING WILD 2195

wildest + noun

1 DREAMS 9114

I‘ve never in my wildest dreams imagined that I would be the object of so much genuine affection.

And the bad news is that the gun lobby is rich beyond our wildest dreams?

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2 IMAGINATION 999 3 EXPECTATIONS 852 4 DREAM 473 5 THING 365 6 FANTASIES 344 7 WORLD 269 8 MOMENTS 249 9 IMAGINATIONS 248

10 YEAR 199