Measure your English vocabulary

[Perikles]

This test is designed to estimate your total English vocabulary based on how many words you know in a much smaller set. You just tick the words if you know their meaning. I was surprised how many words I had never seen before. No cheating, of course!

Does anybody know of an equivalent one for Spanish?

[chileno]

According to that my vocabulary size is about 23k

And yes, many words that I have never heard of or read before.

Which is a nice addition to one's vocabulary, but what's the point, if nobody's going to understand you?

[Sancho Panther]

36,900!

[aleCcowaN]

17,100

not bad, and I left unchecked some 20 or 25 word I know I knew or looked them up once or I'm not sure

but no wonder as I automatically understand words like uxoricide, gingivitis or cerebral, as they are similar in Spanish -in fact, I made a sampling long time ago and there are some 22-25,000 English words I already know by these means- what doesn't mean that I know 30 or 40,000 words in English.

[Sancho Panther]

I think it must generate different words each time you enter because 'uxoricide' wasn't in my list. I don't know exactly what it means but as I think 'uxorious' means obsessive, excessive love of one's wife, it probably means 'murder of a beloved wife', does it?

I'll post and look it up - honest!

Surprisingly it's not in my 'Concise Oxford Dictionary' so I had to refer to Wikipedia; but yes, it's 'wife murder'! Not a commonly used word though, at least not on this side of the Atlantic.

[aleCcowaN]

Originally Posted by Sancho Panther

Surprisingly it's not in my 'Concise Oxford Dictionary' so I had to refer to Wikipedia; but yes, it's 'wife murder'! Not a commonly used word though, at least not on this side of the Atlantic.

We are very used to all these constructions with "-cida" and a noun in Latin that is was a common joke to make up terms for hyperbolic effects. Long time ago, I was called cucurbiticida for tearing apart a pumpkin using a knife instead of removing the peel and cutting it.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by chileno

Which is a nice addition to one's vocabulary, but what's the point, if nobody's going to understand you?

Because then they can look the words up and learn something as well, and everybody has won.

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

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

Originally Posted by Perikles

Because then they can look the words up and learn something as well, and everybody has won.

Agreed!

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

[wrholt]

Hmm, 37,100. Looking at the breakdowns, it seems that my result is unusually high for my age and my SAT verbal score. But my verbal skills are lopsided: I've always tested much better in grammar and vocabulary than in literary knowledge.

[sparkling]

just 7.5k (

I suck

Maybe I have the disadvantage that my native language does not even remotely share any sort of vocabulary with English as opposed to Spanish that does