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Djinn
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Djinn asked in Society & CultureLanguages · 9 years ago

What is the average amount of English words a native speaker knows?

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  • Don Verto
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    Out of about 1,000,000 words a very well educated person might know 50,000 and use only 10,000 in speaking.The average person uses only 5,000. In daily speech a person uses only about 1,000 different words and fewer than 100 are repeated over and over again.People use more different words in writing.

    Source(s): Canadian.
  • ?
    Lv 5
    9 years ago

    Im not a native speaker but probably around 4 or 5 thousand.

  • A-L-X
    9 years ago

    why

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