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Did you mean 1800 words? Most people will not learn 18000 distinct words during their lifetime.

• rjsw 10y ago
  There was a link posted here a while ago to a website that estimated the size of your vocabulary, plenty of HN posters were over 40000.
  • jnicholasp 10y ago
    I'd be interested in that link if you can recall it. I would guess, though, that the website was counting different forms of the 'same' word as distinct words - e.g., jump, jumped, jumping is three words rather than one word with several tenses. Obviously counting this way will multiply the same person's vocabulary several times vs the alternate way.
    • zeristor 10y ago
      I don't know if this is that link, but it fits the bill: http://testyourvocab.com/ http://testyourvocab.com/ It gave me 36,800 I'm encouraged that there are more words for me to learn
      • p1esk 10y ago
        To illuminate these numbers, the vocabularies of famous English writers range from 15,000 to 30,000 unique words [1]. [1] https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/shakespeare_unexceptional_vocabulary/ https://zwischenzugs.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/shakespeare_un...