Surprising, well-sourced facts about English: how many words it has, the most common and longest words, typing speed and word counts of famous books.
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"The" is the most common word in English, and the top 100 words make up half of everything written. Here is the full top 100, the most common nouns and verbs, and how to find the words you overuse.
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At 45 letters, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in major English dictionaries. Here are its rivals, their letter counts, and why the 189,819-letter titin name doesn't qualify.
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The average person types about 52 words per minute on a computer and 36 on a phone. Here's what those numbers mean, what counts as good, and what actually makes people faster.
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The Oxford English Dictionary documents about 500,000 words, and a Google Books study put the whole lexicon near 1 million. Here is where those numbers come from and how many of them you actually use.
