Is there any tool that gives us a list of verbs often used with a certain word?

Question

Is there any tool that gives you a list of verbs often used with a certain word? Sometimes, you forget certain words so you spend time trying to remember and it can be really frustrating at times.

Is there a dictionary or thesaurus that does that? You put a word in there and it gives you a list of verbs you can use.

For example, if you enter door, you get push, open, lock, hold, knock on, and sort them by the order of frequency. It's something that could be really helpful since thesauruses only gives you related words and not words that seem to appear together.

Answer 1

You may be looking for:

• a collocation dictionary (e.g. http://www.freecollocation.com/) which lists collocations, that is terms that often occur together.
• a language corpus (e.g. https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/) which allows you to search through a large collection of written texts (such as newspaper articles or books) for specific words/phrases and see their immediate context.