Add to ORKGThere are about two million words in the English language and exactly twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. Therefore, the average English word should be less than five letters long, since there are over eleven million words that can be spelled with five letters. However, in fact the average length of an English word is around twelve letters
English speech has drifted away from correspondens to its spelling. Efforts to reform spelling have ...
The vocabulary of English contains anywhere from three-quarters of a million to one million words - ...
In the present study, we reexamined the effect of word length (number of letters in a word) on lexic...
How many one-letter words are there in the English language? If you answered 26, well done! If you a...
The English language has a complement of somewhere between two million and three million short wor...
Of perennial interest to Word Ways readers are very long English words - words of 27 or more letters...
According to Dmitri Borgmann in Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s, 1967), the English language contains...
If we wish to refer to the quantity midway between the numbers one and two, we say ONE AND A HALF. E...
Present-Day English (PDE) has, despite the general consistency, some words in which the number of sy...
How do we find the right word for the job? Where does that word come from? Why do we spell it like t...
Many words can be regarded as made up of a sequence of smaller ones. This article takes a look at so...
The August 1969 and February 1970 issues of Word Ways contained several comments on word lengths as ...
This paper deals with something that is very important in our lives and is always present and ready ...
Words are all around us to the point that their complexity is lost in familiarity. The term “word” ...
There are four basic ways wehreby words enter a language. There are the original words, so old we ca...
English speech has drifted away from correspondens to its spelling. Efforts to reform spelling have ...
The vocabulary of English contains anywhere from three-quarters of a million to one million words - ...
In the present study, we reexamined the effect of word length (number of letters in a word) on lexic...
How many one-letter words are there in the English language? If you answered 26, well done! If you a...
The English language has a complement of somewhere between two million and three million short wor...
Of perennial interest to Word Ways readers are very long English words - words of 27 or more letters...
According to Dmitri Borgmann in Beyond Language (Scribner\u27s, 1967), the English language contains...
If we wish to refer to the quantity midway between the numbers one and two, we say ONE AND A HALF. E...
Present-Day English (PDE) has, despite the general consistency, some words in which the number of sy...
How do we find the right word for the job? Where does that word come from? Why do we spell it like t...
Many words can be regarded as made up of a sequence of smaller ones. This article takes a look at so...
The August 1969 and February 1970 issues of Word Ways contained several comments on word lengths as ...
This paper deals with something that is very important in our lives and is always present and ready ...
Words are all around us to the point that their complexity is lost in familiarity. The term “word” ...
There are four basic ways wehreby words enter a language. There are the original words, so old we ca...
English speech has drifted away from correspondens to its spelling. Efforts to reform spelling have ...
The vocabulary of English contains anywhere from three-quarters of a million to one million words - ...
In the present study, we reexamined the effect of word length (number of letters in a word) on lexic...