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== Number of Words in English&French == Could you please give me the web site address(es) where I could find the number of words contained in the English and French (and other) languages? Thank you Chris :The question doesn't have a well-defined answer. There is a sense in which there are infinitely many words in English, because of open-ended naming schemes for large numbers, chemical elements, and chemical compounds (for example, ''unnilnilnilnilpentium'' is the name of a hypothetical chemical element with atomic number 100005). The web pages [http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JohnnyLing.shtml] and [http://www.merriam-webster.com/help/faq/total_words.htm] claim that the biggest English dictionaries have around 500,000 words. [[User:Gdr|Gdr]] 17:06, 2004 May 14 (UTC)
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