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This study assessed the storage structure of common English words in the memory of young nonpsychotic schizophrenics. The subjects in Experiments 1 and 2 sorted words on the basis of the similarity or relatedness they perceived, but the subjects in Experiment 2 performed this task under time pressure. Assuming that the structure underlying these sortings reflects the storage structure of memory, a method of cluster analysis was applied to the data. The structural features extracted for the schizophrenics, nonschizophrenic psychiatric patients, and normals were very similar to each other. A group difference was found in the subject's sorting strategy, but its effect on the main findings was judged to be minimal. We conclude that the storage structure of words in the memory of schkophrenics is probably intact.