“How many words are there in the English language? The short answer is: about a million,” he told RD.com. Doubt you know anything even close to a million words?

Figuring out how many words there are in the English language is complicated for a number of reasons. Let’s start with its roots. What about persona non grata, “an unacceptable or unwanted ...

How many words are there in the English language? No one knows. But that hasn’t stopped an operation known as the Global Language Monitor from estimating * that—as of this writing—there are ...

The word count is this, 986,120 and what that designates is the total number of words in the English language. Wow, we thought. Getting very close to the one million milestone.

Many English-speaking adults know more than 42,000 words. That is a fact after researchers were able to determine the figure thanks to a study that was spearheaded in the Netherlands.