Hypothesized that the frequency of recall of a given word in a free recall situation depends directly on the number of cues which are provided by other words in the list. The cue number of word W was defined as the number of words in the learning list for which W is normally given as an association response in a word association test. High school students were presented with each of the 99 words on the Kent-Rosanoff list for 5 sec. and tested for recall after 15 min. Support was found for the hypothesis tested. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)