Key building block words

These 25 words build more other words than any others in this dictionary. Learn one and you can read several more.

Each root below is a single meaning, not a spelling. gbá ("to hit") and gbà ("to accept") are different words, and they build different families, so they are counted separately.

Chosen automatically from the etymologies in this dictionary, counting how many words each root builds. Example words are picked using Yorùbá word frequencies from the Leipzig Corpora Collection (CC BY 4.0), so they favour words you are likely to meet.