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Irregular verbs list

All 175 irregular verbs worth knowing, with their three forms. The list appears three times below — by level, by frequency and alphabetically — because which order you want depends entirely on what you are doing with it.

Most verbs link to a page of their own, with examples, the mistakes learners make with them, and how they sound; the rarest are covered on their pattern page instead (why). The page is also laid out to print cleanly, so it works as a classroom handout without a PDF.

The 20 you actually need first

These twenty account for a startling share of everyday English. If you learn nothing else from this page, learn this table.

By level

Three bands, split by how soon a learner meets each verb rather than by how strange its forms look.

Core — 53 verbs

The verbs you cannot get through a day of English without. Learn these before anything else on this page.

Intermediate — 65 verbs

Common in conversation, news and exams. Worth knowing properly once the core list is solid.

Advanced — 57 verbs

Mostly encountered in reading rather than speech. Recognising them is enough for a long time.

By pattern

Irregular does not mean random. Most of these verbs fall into a handful of shapes, and learning the shape is faster than learning the members one at a time.

Alphabetical

For when you are looking one up rather than learning them.

Practise all 175 verbs on your phone

Spaced repetition brings each verb back right before you would forget it. Three difficulty modes, a 60-second Blitz, streaks and a verb collection. Free, works offline, no account.

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The app behind this site

Every page here is generated from the same verb data the app uses, so the forms you read are the forms you practise.

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