> I feel that this must depend on the definition of "word". Are all conjugations of some root the same "word" in this sense, or does each conjugation count as a

> I feel that this must depend on the definition of "word". Are all conjugations of some root the same "word" in this sense, or does each conjugation count as a different word? Even ignoring verb conjugations or other grammatical variants depending on the language, a lot of common words will have a whole bunch of different meanings (and knowing all of the meanings of common words can sometimes be more important than learning more words that are less common) so looking at the number of individual words is definitely misleading.