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I don't think this can be right. the Oxford English Dictionary has over 300,000 main words, and I got a score over 80%. That would suggest I have a vocabulary o
by inetsee 7y ago
I don't think this can be right. the Oxford English Dictionary has over 300,000 main words, and I got a score over 80%. That would suggest I have a vocabulary of 240,000 words, which seems a bit high, to say the least!
- larkeith 7y agoTheir FAQ claims 60,000 ("The word list should contain almost all English words...") so 48k+ works known, which is somewhat more believable. OED 2nd Edition (1989) has 171k full, current entries [1] (and another 47k obsolete, which I will disregard), so 137k+ words, which is quite a few but perhaps not beyond the realm of imagination. [1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-words-are-there-in-the-english-language https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/how-many-words-are...