how many words in English used daily
2006-09-24 17:37:56 · 8 answers · asked by ? 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
I think it's 800,000 but I'll check
"I now unequivocally state that as of 1:16 pm (Pacific) on the 21st day of March (the vernal equinox) in the year 2006 AD (or CE, whatever your preference), there were approximately 988,968 words in the English Language, plus or minus a handful"
2006-09-24 17:41:20 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
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.
This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million.
2006-09-24 17:44:06 · answer #2 · answered by crazeebitch2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The number of different words used daily can vary from one person to another. It can be anywhere from a few hundred to more than ten thousand. OTOH, there are hundreds of thousands--possibly more than a million--total words in the English language. -yk
2006-09-24 17:48:22 · answer #3 · answered by Yaakov 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
listed here are purely 3 words interior the English language that comprise 3 contraptions of consecutive double letters. they are: bookkeeper bookkeeping sweettooth There are others that comprise 3 contraptions of double letters yet no longer consecutively. some are: assessee keelless Mississippi committee keenness addressee
2016-10-01 08:17:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too many. English is weird that way in that we "hybrid" other languages into ours and create new words or "colloquialisms."
Hope this helps
2006-09-24 17:41:15 · answer #5 · answered by Chistiaŋ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That can not be determined,because new words are constantly added
2006-09-24 17:48:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Way too many to count.
2006-09-24 17:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by laurajayne21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
millions...
2006-09-24 17:45:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋