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Nikolai Volcano :

but if every set has a name ie million, billion, trillion.... then it still tracks that there would be infinite number words.

Cliff Prowse :

The smartest thing Ant has ever said

user8379791725459 :

English has the least amount of words than other languages

seachd12 :

Linguist here thinking “Well, it really depends on what you count as a word. English has a lot of lexical items, but agglutinative languages, for example, can turn one word into thousands, blah blah blah”…

Angelo :

Depending on the dictionary (Oxford, Collins, etc), there are between 500-800k words

MikkisFi :

Had to google this sht but Oxford English Dictionary has 171,476 words in currebtly in use roughly a bit over 47k words.

Anikaaaabe :

AC Ramey :

Wild

isthatrielly :

"bc technically, there's all of them"

Lexi :

I wanted an excuse to use this