Each register gathers the dictionary entries of which one sense carries that usage label — colloquial, dated, regional… — with the sense concerned. Registers are listed from the largest to the smallest.
- Obsolete 10,476
- Slang 9,618
- US 6,610
- Historical 6,588
- Informal 6,517
- UK 5,895
- Figuratively 5,691
- Archaic 5,602
- Idiomatic 4,686
- Rare 4,436
- Dated 4,340
- Derogatory 3,542
- Colloquial 2,797
- Australia 2,044
- Internet 2,010
- Dialectal 1,860
- Canada 1,586
- Humorous 1,411
- Scotland 1,377
- Vulgar 1,283
- Uncommon 1,271
- Ireland 1,176
- Euphemistic 959
- New Zealand 883
- Offensive 721
- India 680
- Nonstandard 640
- Philippines 546
- Neologism 537
- Literally 519
- Plural normally 504
- Poetic 482
- Northern England 459
- Pronunciation spelling 450
- In compounds 437
- Specifically 399
- Literary 385
- Proscribed 380
- Slur 371
- Rhetoric 362
- South Africa 360
- Ethnic 347
- Singapore 327
- Commonwealth 312
- Misspelling 310
- Clipping 295
- Regional 287
- Formal 283
- Childish 244
- Judaism 218
- Physical 217
- Metonymically 194
- Multicultural London English 190
- Malaysia 175
- British 170
- Southern US 153
- Mildly 133
- Possibly 133
- England 131
- Sarcastic 127
- English 123
- Cockney 120
- Greek 117
- Singlish 116
- Contraction 111
- Endearing 111
- Ergative 106
- Hong Kong 104
- With definite article 103
- Yorkshire 102
- Ancient Rome 101
- Particle 100
- Jamaica 99
- Caribbean 98
- Geordie 95
- Excessive 93
- Hinduism 93
- South Asia 93
- Letter 91
- Postpositional 91
- Oxford 86
- Ironic 79
- Nigeria 74
- Western 74
- Appalachia 73
- Onomatopoeic 73
- Relational 73
- Wales 72
- Nonce word 71
- Japanese 69
- Cornwall 68
- Diminutive 66
- Agent 62
- Africa 55
- Roman 55
- Northern Ireland 54
- Pakistan 54
- West Country 54
- Marxism 53
- Emphatic 51
- Stative 51
- Canadian 50
- Deliberate 50
- New England 50
- Manglish 49
- Indicative 48
- Mormonism 48
- Pennsylvania 48
- Third person 48
- Misconstruction 47
- Newfoundland 47
- Second person 45
- Northumbria 44
- Pronoun 40
- Hawaii 39
- Australian 38
- Invariable 38
- Modern 38
- Indonesia 37
- Interrogative 36
- Maine 36
- With on 36
- Conjunctive 35
- Lowercase 35
- Quebec 35
- Jewish 33
- Midlands 33
- Personal 33
- Uppercase 32
- California 31
- Polari 31
- Mnemonic 30
- Louisiana 29
- Standard 28
- With of 28
- Chinese 27
- Feminine 27
- Jargon 27
- Navy 27
- Comparative 26
- East 26
- Honorific 26
- North 26
- South 26
- China 25
- New York 25
- Empty gloss 24
- Genitive 24
- Germanic 24
- No gloss 24
- Passive 24
- Southern 24
- Trinidad and Tobago 24
- Cumbria 23
- Early 23
- Myanmar 23
- New York City 23
- Ulster 23
- West Midlands 23
- No present participle 22
- World War I 22
- East Anglia 21
- Nominative 21
- Northeastern 21
- Shetland 21
- Devon 20
- Indo European studies 20
- Midwestern US 20
- Northern US 20
- Texas 20