Measure your English vocabulary

[vita32]

23,600 words. It would really be nice to have a similar test in Spanish.

[sosia]

23,200, but I think it's due many latin/spanish/historic words (like tricorn, uxoricide) in my quiz.
I left many uncheked, so I think it would be worse.
Honestly I think I should be 12.000 or less.
Saludos
Good test perikles

[nk2014]

I got 20,800 words. I think that is pretty cool.

But it is nothing compared to the 250,000 words in the english language.
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Yo recibí veinte mill y ochociento palabras. Es un poco asombroso

Pero es nada cuando aprendí que hay doscientos cincuenta palabras en íngles.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

It's good that you write in Spanish and in English, so we can have a clear idea on what you mean. Nice job!

Originally Posted by nk2014

Yo recibí tuve veinte mill y ochociento (wrong spelling) palabras. Es un poco asombroso ("Un poco asombroso" is an awkward construction, if you mean something positive. "Asombroso" means "amazing", "astonishing", so it should be accompanied by an emphasis on how amazing or astonishing something is, like "bastante asombroso" / "muy asombroso". These expressions give an idea of something actually amazing or astonishing. "Pretty cool" might be said with "muy bueno", "increíble", "magnífico", "genial"...)

Pero no (check the structure of negative sentences in Spanish) es nada cuando aprendí que hay doscientas cincuenta mil ("doscientas cincuenta" is only 250) palabras en íngles inglés (Be careful, the way you wrote it, should be pronounced "ingles", which means "groins") .

[nk2014]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

It's good that you write in Spanish and in English, so we can have a clear idea on what you mean. Nice job!

Thank you a lot. I learned the corrections and understand it now.
I will try have the accents on the words correct.
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Gracias mucho. Yo aprendí las correcciones y las entiendo ahora.
Yo probare tener los acentos en las palabras acertado.

[Elaina]

26, 800

don't know if it is good or bad......some words looked made-up....

[Gatsby]

19.7k here. Just goes to show that vocab isn't the only thing that's important; I didn't even test into the regular "average" for English speakers, but happen to excel at writing in a way that's been unrivaled by nearly all my peers in recent memory.

Perhaps less is more when it comes to communicating in a concise fashion.

[wrholt]

Originally Posted by Gatsby

19.7k here. Just goes to show that vocab isn't the only thing that's important; I didn't even test into the regular "average" for English speakers, but happen to excel at writing in a way that's been unrivaled by nearly all my peers in recent memory.

Perhaps less is more when it comes to communicating in a concise fashion.

I agree: knowing more words does not, by itself, improve one's ability to write either well or effectively. In fact, using too many little-used words when writing may make the result less effective for its purpose.

[pjt33]

Es curioso: según la explicación han quitado todas las palabras que tengan cognados portugueses, porque hacen una investigación especial con brasileños. Pero quedan algunas que tienen una derivación claramente latina (como uxorious, por ejemplo).

[caliber1]

LOL!!! I'm reading all of your guys' (and gals' ) results of 20,000 or so thinking, "I got this". Then I realized I didn't thuroughly read the original post which said it was for English. I will retake it. I will do better

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

@Perikles: I'll look for something similar in Spanish, but I doubt there is anyone carrying on such systematic research online.


Agreed!

24,700... I expected less, as I left so many words unchecked.

Show off!