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I got 33,700. Sadly, I learned a lot of those words from my old D&D books. Gary Gygax must have known about 80,000 words. 
Gary Gygax must have known about 80,000 words.
Either that or he was a habitual thesaurus-raider.
Either that or he was a habitual thesaurus-raider.
Yeah, that's probably closer to the truth. I always had to check the thesaurus and dictionary while reading those books. But hey, it let me learn a lot of obscure words!
36,600.
Hmm. I'm a little bit of a word nerd.
(I'm 16. Not sure what the average is for my age group). I love whoever voted me down.
Hmm. I'm a little bit of a word nerd.
(I'm 16. Not sure what the average is for my age group). I love whoever voted me down.
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25,900 for me. According to their chart that drops me at age 24-25; I am 22, so that is pretty close. Seems like I should go back to reading books again to bump my vocabulary!
34,400 words. Meh...I only use 1000 so what a waste. How often would I use sobriquet (if you've read Oliver Twist, you've seen that word)? I've never used it in any conversation or written it (except now). I know it, but never use it. I prefer the more commonly used nickname.
How often would I use sobriquet (if you've read Oliver Twist, you've seen that word)? I've never used it in any conversation or written it (except now). I know it, but never use it. I prefer the more commonly used nickname.
I got 33,400. This test isn't very accurate though. Knowing a word and being able to perceive it's meaning by understanding context are two very different things. There were plenty of words in the list that I didn't know but had they been placed in a book I could quite easily infer their basic meaning and apply them to the story.
Indeed. Even people who speak English as their first language generally only use a couple thousand words on a daily basis. Most of the rest is just fluff, or jargon.
Being a bibliophile, I can say that most of my vocabulary stems from reading, and while one picks up lots of unusual words that way one certainly doesn't use all of them with any regularity.
21,400 here. I'm not a native speaker, though my test (not sure if the test is always the same) had lots of French words so those were easy. Apparently, I'm close to the average of the native speakers at 24k. But the site states, the participants have a much better knowledge than the expected average.
Cool test
Cool test
Yet he can't use a period.
If we're being picky, I'd say that what I wrote wasn't a full sentence anyway, so a period would have been superfluous.