Topic: So, how large is it?

[Tribemaster49]

30,500 words, not bad. Though I've done a lot of reading so I'm not sure if that's average or not for someone with that much interest in English. Guess I'll have to keep the practice up lol.

[Zaer Darkwail]

My score was 18,800, so pretty good for a non-native who has never traveled. But saw lots of new words.

[Sagitta]

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
21,400
words

Non-native speaker living in a country that uses English as a second (but feels like third) language.

[laa]

20K, apparently. I didn't know my vocabulary was that limited, lol. I'm a wannabe writer, too. :c

[MrAlanNH]

33, 900

Learned that not being able to see words in context definitely revealed how much I rely on the context to 'know' the definition of words.
Seeing them by themselves, there were words I recognized but couldn't come up with a definition without the context.

Although, I had to leave most of that last column unchecked because I had no clue whatsoever.  My years and years of reading role-playing books and fantasy fiction let me down with these obscure words!

[MrAlanNH]

After about two years I got curious and made the test again.

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
40,700
words

Noice!

Wait...is that a word?

[RedPhoenix]

Did a retake

36,500

That's really good I think definitely improved over the years!

I think honestly most of the hard words I know because of how they are used in fantasy tabletop games or literature that was smutty a few centuries or so ago but now is considered classy lol.

[TheGlyphstone]

I retested and only got 32,700 words, down from 33,700 seven years ago. I guess my mind is going...

[Black Howling]

I retested and only got 32,700 words, down from 33,700 seven years ago. I guess my mind is going...

I thought I was gonna be in the same boat, but I retested and got 40,200. That's up almost 5,000 from my last result of 35,300. I'm not sure how that happened.

[Esmeralgirl]

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 25,800 words

I think good enough for a non-native who has never been outside of my country.

[yobo]

19,200...

Not too shabby for a non-native speaker, but I wish I knew 800 more words so I could break 20,000...

[Elgor]

33,200

non-native, still working on it :)

[arthenwel]

29,000 words estimation

[Maethaneos]

26,700. It'd be higher if I checked the boxes of the words I intuitively knew. A few of those I could tell from the root word what it was but yet I'd never actually seen the word before.

[Masked Insanity]

39500... though admittedly, I have both the WoD boost (White wolf loved to sprinkle 19/early 20th-century jargon into their books) and the fact that my mind grabs whatever it encounters and doesn't let go of anything. Not always a good thing 

None-native speaker, but had some school classes in English, which certainly didn't hurt. Hitting 12 years old me with "precipitation models" was a tour de force.

[Riodragon1989]

35,300 words... didn't think my dic
tionary was that massive!

[FortunatePilgrim]

33, 800. Like someone else said, It was interesting how many words I recognized, but couldn't pull a definition out of my head without context. I KNOW I know what an inveigle is, but I just can't work it out. I was pretty grateful for braggadocio in the final column.