How's your vocabulary?

pdurrant · 08-10-2011, 10:44 AM

Here's a splendid site: http://testyourvocab.com/

Just indicate the words for which you can give a definition, and it'll estimate (+/- 10%) how big your English vocabulary is.

The first page is to get a very rough estimate of your vocabulary, the second page is specific to you, and allows the site to get a really good estimate.

My vocabulary is around 36,000 words, according to the site.

They have some nice data on vocabulary growth with age.

Bilbo1967 · 08-10-2011, 11:00 AM

Nice site - thanks.

My vocabulary is 35,400 apparently. Pretty sure some of those words were made up though!

theducks · 08-10-2011, 11:28 AM

28,900 words

pdurrant · 08-10-2011, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by theducks

28,900 words

Read more, and use the built-in dictionary.

Actually, vocabulary size is closely related to age. According to the preliminary results at the site, vocabulary increases at about four words a day from age 3 to 16, and then starts to slow, and as adults is more like one word a day.

And from 50 onwards, seems to almost stop. Hmm.. I think I'll have to take my own advice.

Word for today: uxoricide. (It was new to me!)

beppe · 08-10-2011, 11:40 AM

41,100
words

But a few were in French and maybe two in Italian.
It might have helped having been married to an American for 14 years, plus one American fiancée and a girlfriend with whom I had to converse in English. Correct it, make it two. I was forgetting the German one. She used to call me Spatzi. Very tender. A 220 lb little sparrow.

beppe · 08-10-2011, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Read more, and use the built-in dictionary.

Actually, vocabulary size is closely related to age. According to the preliminary results at the site, vocabulary increases at about four words a day from age 3 to 16, and then starts to slow, and as adults is more like one word a day.

And from 50 onwards, seems to almost stop. Hmm.. I think I'll have to take my own advice.

Word for today: uxoricide. (It was new to me!)

Good for you. I contemplated it a few times until they introduced divorce in Italy. Not true. It is just a blague

gwhite · 08-10-2011, 12:32 PM

My score was 35,800, but then I'm old and my brain cells are not renewing as they should. I think that the advantage given by age thing must be true only up to a certain point. Probably close to the time at which your daughter follows you around checking for damp cushions.

lestatar · 08-10-2011, 12:47 PM

Hey, tres cool site - thanks for posting! Hit 39,500 FWIW....

astrangerhere · 08-10-2011, 12:53 PM

36,000 and i saw a few legal terms in my second page list.

Phogg · 08-10-2011, 01:15 PM

Alas, 36,700. I should have taken a second year of french, and maybe some latin.

sakura-panda · 08-10-2011, 01:29 PM

27,600 -- I must not be reading the same books as the rest of you!

RainingLemur · 08-10-2011, 01:35 PM

42,000.

That was a really fun test. Thanks for posting this!

redbees · 08-10-2011, 01:37 PM

41,800 words.

Did everyone else look up those words with which they were unfamiliar?

That was fun, thanks for calling this to our attention!

Pookeysgirl · 08-10-2011, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by sakura-panda

27,600 -- I must not be reading the same books as the rest of you!

Me too. 24,100...I gotta do something about this number

pdurrant · 08-10-2011, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RainingLemur

42,000.

That was a really fun test. Thanks for posting this!

Wow, that's an impressively large vocabulary. Especially considering that their scoring only goes up to 45,000!

(Read their pages about the test — it's interesting stuff.)

08-10-2011, 10:44 AM	#1
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 73,631 Karma: 315126578 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	How's your vocabulary? Here's a splendid site: http://testyourvocab.com/ Just indicate the words for which you can give a definition, and it'll estimate (+/- 10%) how big your English vocabulary is. The first page is to get a very rough estimate of your vocabulary, the second page is specific to you, and allows the site to get a really good estimate. My vocabulary is around 36,000 words, according to the site. They have some nice data on vocabulary growth with age.

08-10-2011, 11:40 AM	#5
beppe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,161 Karma: 81026524 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Italy Device: Kindle3, Ipod4, IPad2	41,100 words But a few were in French and maybe two in Italian. It might have helped having been married to an American for 14 years, plus one American fiancée and a girlfriend with whom I had to converse in English. Correct it, make it two. I was forgetting the German one. She used to call me Spatzi. Very tender. A 220 lb little sparrow. Last edited by beppe; 08-10-2011 at 11:58 AM.

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redbees Enthusiast Posts: 128 Karma: 52196 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: US Device: Paperwhite 2, Nexus 7	41,800 words. Did everyone else look up those words with which they were unfamiliar? That was fun, thanks for calling this to our attention! Last edited by redbees; 08-10-2011 at 02:29 PM.

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gwhite Connoisseur Posts: 69 Karma: 828088 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Fife Scotland Device: Kindle 3 Paperwhite	My score was 35,800, but then I'm old and my brain cells are not renewing as they should. I think that the advantage given by age thing must be true only up to a certain point. Probably close to the time at which your daughter follows you around checking for damp cushions.

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