How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by abnry » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 1:51 PM UTC

How many of the 170k English words do you know?
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Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by dtagames » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

This was fun! The progression seems logical.

I scored 71,000.

Re: How many of the 170k English words do you know?

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Post by itsamario » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC

I know maybe 20-30. I'm aware of maybe a few thousand.

I use the language to understand not get an effect

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Post by goldenarm » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:42 PM UTC

It's hilarious that most of these words are French

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Post by yorwba » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

There is a typo in "Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia," it should be "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" instead. (Also, it breaks the layout.)

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Post by fritzo » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

Feature request: fewer clicks. It should be one click per question

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Post by pastel8739 » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

I wish the option was just “yes I know this word” or “no I don’t”. Reading the definitions takes too long for so many words

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Post by jstanley » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:48 PM UTC

Cool idea, am working through.

It's annoying that you need to click 3 times per question, and the buttons are in 2 different places.

Maybe would be better to just let me click the answer I want and then instantly show me the next question?

Also who is Sandi?

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Post by cm2012 » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:49 PM UTC

Fun fact: there's a test you can do called wordsum which correlates extremely highly, like .71, to IQ. It's just asking you 10 vocabulary questions. It turns out knowing advanced vocabulary correlates really well to IQ.

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Post by Laurel1234 » Fri, Jun 19, 2026, 2:50 PM UTC

Pretty fun.

I suggest skipping the submit button and just showing it's correct when pressing and moving on after a sec or so. Having to click on submit twice really breaks the flow.

Also in all the words I tried I noticed out of the 4 options one is the correct one, another is the opposite of the correct one, and the other 2 are random stuff. You can basically skip any option whose antonym isn't present as well.