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More than a million.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#Number_of_words_in_English
Number of words in English
The General Explanations at the beginning of the Oxford English Dictionary states:
The Vocabulary of a widely diffused and highly cultivated living language is not a fixed quantity circumscribed by definite limits... there is absolutely no defining line in any direction: the circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference.
The vocabulary of English is undoubtedly vast, but assigning a specific number to its size is more a matter of definition than of calculation. Unlike other languages such as French (the Académie française), German (Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung), Spanish (Real Academia Española) and Italian (Accademia della Crusca), there is no academy to define officially accepted words and spellings. Neologisms are coined regularly in medicine, science, technology and other fields, and new slang is constantly developed. Some of these new words enter wide usage; others remain restricted to small circles. Foreign words used in immigrant communities often make their way into wider English usage. Archaic, dialectal, and regional words might or might not be widely considered as "English".
The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (OED2) includes over 600,000 definitions, following a rather inclusive policy:
It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectal usage and slang (Supplement to the OED, 1933).[68]
The editors of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged (475,000 main headwords) in their preface, estimate the number to be much higher. It is estimated that about 25,000 words are added to the language each year.[69]
The Global Language Monitor announced that the English language had crossed the 1,000,000-word threshold on June 10, 2009.[70] The announcement was met with strong scepticism by linguists and lexicographers,[71] though a number of non-specialist reports[72][73] accepted the figure uncritically.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/howmany.htm
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutenglish/numberwords
How many words are there in the English language?
There is no single sensible answer to this question. It is impossible to count the number of words in a language, because it is so hard to decide what counts as a word. Is dog one word, or two (a noun meaning 'a kind of animal', and a verb meaning 'to follow persistently')? If we count it as two, then do we count inflections separately too (dogs plural noun, dogs present tense of the verb). Is dog-tired a word, or just two other words joined together? Is hot dog really two words, since we might also find hot-dog or even hotdog?
It is also difficult to decide what counts as 'English'. What about medical and scientific terms? Latin words used in law, French words used in cooking, German words used in academic writing, Japanese words used in martial arts? Do you count Scots dialect? Youth slang? Computing jargon?
The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words. To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. Over half of these words are nouns, about a quarter adjectives, and about a seventh verbs; the rest is made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc. These figures take no account of entries with senses for different parts of speech (such as noun and adjective).
This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use. If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach three quarters of a million.
http://englishenglish.com/english_facts_12.htm
How many words does the average native speaker of English know?
This depends on the speakers level of education, background etc. but somewhere between 12,000 and 20,000. Shakespeare used more than 30,000 words in his works!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8013859.stm
"Most people know half the words - about 50,000 - easily. A reasonably educated person about 75,000 and a really cool, smart person well, maybe all of them but that is rather unusual.
"An ordinary person, one who has not been to university say, would know about 35,000 quite easily."
http://www.qgroupplc.com/category/howmanywords
How many English words do I need? The number of words you need varies according to individual needs: are you a banker, bus driver, academic, business person, entrepreneur, etc. As a speaker of English as second language a vocabulary of around 3000 high frequency words can be enough to get by. To score high on TOEFL, GRE and GMAT it is estimated that a 10,000 word vocabulary is necessary. Other studies indicate that a 2,000-word vocabulary of high frequency words actually comprises 87% of words in an academic text accompanied by an additional 800 academic words identified as comprising an additional 8% of textual items are sufficient for a successful college life. So, have we covered 95% of texts – yes or no? The remaining need for words stems from technical items of specific fields amounting to between 1,000 - 2,000 items. Lastly, a large number of low frequency academic words estimated to number up to 123,000 words can be added to one’s vocabulary to achieve our purpose.
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