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It is not scientifically possible to count the number of words in any language because there is no universal definition of what a word is.

For example: is Karaoke an English word? what about Avaunt? phat? paradichlorobenzine? Do we include archaic words? neologisms? slang? There is no rule.

The general theory is that most languages employ an active vocabulary of about 30,000 to 80,000 words, and may contain as many as 160,000 words.

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