Common First Words

Common First Words

This is a list of common first words adapted from The Rossetti Infant Toddler Language Scale.
Adjectives (Describing Words)

Big Cold Dirty Hot Little Old Thirsty Wet Yucky
Early Pronouns (for Early Location Words)

I Me Mine You
Nouns (Person, Place, or Thing)

Apple Arms Baby Ball Balloon Banana Bath Bear/Teddy Belly/Tummy Bike Bird Book Boots Boy Bug Bunny Candy Car Cat/Kitty Chair Cheese Choo-Choo Church Clock Coat Comb Cookie Cracker Cup Dada/Daddy Diaper Dog/Doggie Drink Ears Eyes Feet Fingers Flowers Girl Grandma Grandpa Gum Hair Hands Hat Horse/Horsey Hot Dog Juice Key Legs Mama/Mommy Milk Mouth Nose Paper Phone Pizza Potty Purse Rock Shirt Shoe Sky Sleep Snow Sock Spoon Stick Stove Teeth Toes Toy Truck TV
Social Words

Bye Hi/Hello Huh? More Shhh Thank you Uh-oh What? What's that? Yes/Yeah
Verbs (Action Words)

Comb Done Drink Eat Fall Go Go bed Go bye-bye Go night-night Go out Put See Sit Sleep Snow Swing Want
Additional Types (These may include Quantity, Animal Sounds, & Rejection)

All (all gone) Done (all done) Moo Don't Neigh-neigh No Quack-quack
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