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I wish the option was just “yes I know this word” or “no I don’t”. Reading the definitions takes too long for so many words
by pastel8739 4mo ago
I wish the option was just “yes I know this word” or “no I don’t”. Reading the definitions takes too long for so many words
- yorwba 4mo agoA different interaction design is used by https://testyourvocab.com https://testyourvocab.com : just a list of words with a checkbox for each. But it might encourage overconfidence. Before their acquisition by Preply, they also had an interesting blog with statistical analysis: https://web.archive.org/web/20210724115604/http://testyourvocab.com/blog.php https://web.archive.org/web/20210724115604/http://testyourvo... The two tests give me widely different results, probably because the sampled words aren't perfectly representative and so the results should have huge error bars to account for this sampling error.
- thinkinguy 4mo agoI (native American English speaker, college prep school educated) had 5 words that I thought I knew, but still got wrong: obsequious laconic sanguine quotidian enervate On the other hand, I was able to correctly guess these words that I'd never seen before: omphaloskepsis crepuscular absquatulate callipygian houghmagandy quire And then there were these, which were just totally foreign to me: hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia nudiustertian ergophobia tittynope Final estimate: ~73000 words