How many words are there in the english language?
There is no exact count of the number of words in English, because languages are ever expanding! There are at least 1 million!
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The compendious Oxford English Dictionary lists about 500,000 words; and a further 1/2-million tech and science terms are uncatalogued.
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There is no single sensible answer to this question. It is impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it is so hard to decide what counts as a word.It is also difficult to decide what counts as 'English'.
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The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. ChaCha!
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There are over 1 million words (including scientific terms) for the English language. Considering the number of lanuages, tons.
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Its estimated that the vocabulary of English includes roughly 1 million words, though noone has calculated the exact number
Answered by Mira P. -
It is impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it is so hard to decide what counts as a word.
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