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How do you check your coverage? Or even how many words you know?
by wingerlang 7y ago
How do you check your coverage? Or even how many words you know?
- xxxpupugo 7y agoThere are certain tests floating around, like they will try 50ish quiz to estimate your vocabulary size. Those are not set-in-stone science, so it is just an estimate, but I take about 10+ over those years, and the the number from those estimates seems consistent. Coverage, there is some paper to track, I just googled it.
- bspammer 7y agoJust googling around, I found this test: https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/ https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/ No idea about its accuracy, but as a native English speaker it's telling me my vocabulary size is 30k words, which sounds roughly correct.
- thwave 7y agoI've tried it now and got 22k, which seems not so bad for a foreigner ("Top 6.53% Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!"), but I feel like I cheated: most of the more fancy English words are just misspelled Latin, and having even a modest Latin vocabulary (I'd don't think I know more than 4k Latin words) makes their meanings pretty obvious.