consultingaggressive:

hollydiggity:

glitterandmetal-yt-da:

inner-tardis:

fakevermeer:

Test Your Vocabulary: how many words do you know?

Most Native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words. And for foreign learners of English, we’ve found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words.

I scored 21,500 FUCK YES

I got 21,000
That’s decent, isn’t it? I got a bit worried when I saw so many words where I just went ‘what even…?’

21,600. From some of the words I thought I’d get less. They were so weird.

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:

31,200

words

40,600. There were a few I didn’t know well enough to say I knew them.

This is actually a scholarly study, guys, so participating in it can help these researchers accumulate data on people and linguistics.  

That said: 42,700.  Damn.