How many words do you know?

[tiger1526]

Estimate how many words you know, its kind of crazy in my Opinion that the average american uses 10-20 thousand words and can recognize 30-60 thousand

i cant even think of 20k words, even 10k seems like a lot

[$$$]

How in the world can you estimate how many words you know? Whatever you guess, it's probably more.

[Wicked315]

How in the world can you estimate how many words you know? Whatever you guess, it's probably more.

That's 18 right there. Good job Skald.

[Cloud13]

I like to think I have a large vocabulary.

Or should I say, a Brobdingnagian vocabulary.

[Xenonight2]

what vocabulary mean

[TaikoxKashi]

i know three

[DarkAztaroth]

i know three

I must admit I loled

Really I don't know how many words I know x-x...

[SourChicken]

A lot .

[supe]

probably more than 5k? since i'm bilingual (Tagalog and English),and fluent with Bicol dialect(bicolano)..

[$$$]

That's 18 right there. Good job Skald.

It's only 16, Wicked. I used 'how' and 'you' twice. But I guess you can't expect too much from someone from Boston.

[Avarance]

I wonder how many words Antoine Dodson knows

[$$$]

I wonder how many words Antoine Dodson knows

Are 'der' and 'errbody' considered words?

[bonneau_14]

I betcha I could recognize the majority of English words. Can't spell worth a damn but...

[Cloud13]

It's only 16, Wicked. I used 'how' and 'you' twice. But I guess you can't expect too much from someone from Boston.

TheSkald, that was a nice




I found a list of the 3000 most common English words; I bet you will know 99% of the words there.

http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-...mon-words.html

[tiger1526]

TheSkald, that was a nice




I found a list of the 3000 most common English words; I bet you will know 99% of the words there.

http://www.paulnoll.com/Books/Clear-...mon-words.html

i knew every single one of them