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KevinH · 07-10-2019, 01:31 PM

Just for laughs, I ran unmunch on the en_US.dic and en_US.aff file and the 62,074 base words with affix flags expanded to a word list of 152,469 unique words.

I tried the same thing for es.dic and es.aff and the 58,154 base words with affix flags expanded to a word list of 689,751 unique words.

So Spanish must make use of prefixes and suffixes much more than English!

Also, if you lookat the working set vocabulary used by Shakespeare for example, it was something like 35,000 words. Most average people have working sets of 10,000 to 20,000 words.

Any way you look at it having 689751 unique words seems to be huge coverage.

Has anyone validated the universe of words the Spanish dictionary already covers?

07-10-2019, 01:31 PM	#22
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,602 Karma: 5433388 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Just for laughs, I ran unmunch on the en_US.dic and en_US.aff file and the 62,074 base words with affix flags expanded to a word list of 152,469 unique words. I tried the same thing for es.dic and es.aff and the 58,154 base words with affix flags expanded to a word list of 689,751 unique words. So Spanish must make use of prefixes and suffixes much more than English! Also, if you lookat the working set vocabulary used by Shakespeare for example, it was something like 35,000 words. Most average people have working sets of 10,000 to 20,000 words. Any way you look at it having 689751 unique words seems to be huge coverage. Has anyone validated the universe of words the Spanish dictionary already covers?