What is the size of your vocabulary?

[kriskiran]

Uh.. 17000. Must be because i learned most of my english from hollywood movies.. They're so low on vocabulary. Aren't they?

[Darwinian]

32,800 is the estimate for me.
(engage smug mode)

Typical!! You're such a.. Ooh! What's that word I'm looking for?

Genius, polymath, intellectual, literate.......I have more.

You also seem to have a thesaurus...

[Autumnlicious]

28,900 words.

REF: http://testyourvocab.com/?r=73762

[Violet]

33,300

I don't feel smug about it, I've seen a number of those other damn words, but hell if I remember what a cantle is.

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Oh, well fuck me. It's part of a horse saddle.

<--- duh

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24,800.

What's another word for disappointed?

These are what you want:

Let down, fail, dissatisfy, dash someone's hopes; upset, dismay, sadden, disenchant, disillusion, shatter someone's illusions, disabuse.

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34,800

(There have been a few people around here lately who will score much higher. They're the ones who redefine words to suit themselves, so of course they'll know at least one definition of every word shown to them!)

Well you'd think I'd be one of those people, wouldn't you. I didn't this time

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32,800 is the estimate for me.
(engage smug mode)

Typical!! You're such a.. Ooh! What's that word I'm looking for?

An* English prick.

Means he's really small. Not quite a micro, but no fun.

[Minimalist]

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
34,900
words

However, none of the words I use most often were on the survey.

[Violet]

40,300....that actually embarrasses me a little bit. On the one hand only 40k? On the other..why do I only use about 300 of them..lol?

I didn't like the test either. It skipped all the fun words (like dogmatic) and gave us shit that looked like it came from france.

[Autumnlicious]

I think the test is based off of a statistical model that looks at the probabilities on some form of tree of knowing related derived words from certain combinations of roots.

That said, such a thing will be, by nature, imprecise for an individual but quite precise for a large population of test takers.

Which is why I am not to worried about the apparent ridiculous ranges of word knowledge offered -- the test can only examine a small subset of words considered, so it is probable that some of us have gotten a batch of words we'd never know despite our knowledge of other batches, while others will get nearly all of them from a favorable batch, possibly through a set of initial conditions or chance.

I am more interested in the implementation of this test, if the model is at or greater complexity than what I've speculated. Would be cool.

[Faith No More]

Trying to compensate for a disappointing score Moros? Don't worry, while you may be depressed with your results, my score has left me positively suicidal.

[Shell B]

Sorry to disappoint, Void. I hit 38,000, but not 40.

[Anomalocaris]

38100 words. My unrelenting verbosity paid off.