vocabulary, n.Trivia

A new word in English is created approximately every 98 minutes.

Shakespeare has added over 2200 words to the English language.

William Shakespeare used about 17,677 words in his plays, sonnets, and narrative poems.

The common English-speaker has roughly 50,000 words within their mind and generally finds the correct one in approximately 600 milliseconds.

The average active vocabulary of an adult English speaker is of around 20,000 words.

Shakespeare is said to have come up with more than 1,700 words including moonbeam, laughable, eyeball, bump, puking, champion, bedroom, excitement, and zany.

African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words

Dogs are able to understand, on average, over 150 words

the vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words