Yeah, but the native speaker already has k words. This article [1] puts the number of distinct French root words (i.e., ignoring conjugation and other modifica

Yeah, but the native speaker already has k words. This article [1] puts the number of distinct French root words (i.e., ignoring conjugation and other modifications) at around 65,000. This long-running online test [2] pegs the average English native speaker vocabulary size as maybe 25,000. So k might be at least N/3. That's not nothing! Disclaimer: I know nothing about linguistics. [1] https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/international-scrabble-the-size-of-the-dictionary-depends-on-how-words-get-inflected.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/08/international-scrab... [2] http://testyourvocab.com/ http://testyourvocab.com/