Is there a novel with all the words of the English language in it?

Answer 1

No, we can be quite confident there is no novel with all words in the English language in it.

Different people have different ideas of what the size of the English language is. Some small dictionaries have 60,000 or 100,000 words. I have read that some large ones have 600,000 words. There is probably not one person who knows the meanings of all the words in the largest English language dictionaries.

There is no dictionary that includes the definitions of all words in the English language. Even the largest dictionaries do not have the meanings of all words. When a dictionary is edited, the editors have to decide what to include and what not to include on the basis of how important words are. Typically, a dictionary editing staff leaves tens or hundreds of thousands of words out.

Entire classes of words are not included. Only the most commonly used words for organic chemicals are included. I read many years ago that there were over 600,000 names of organic compounds. My guess is that there are over a million today.

Most novels have about 100,000 words or fewer.