How many words with 10 letters are there in the US dictionary?
alex
2005-11-29 17:07:31 UTC
How many words with 10 letters are there in the US dictionary?
Two answers:
fzl05a
2005-12-01 00:01:20 UTC
SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) has about 70,000 10-letter words total. If we limit it to the "large" subset recommended for spellchecking in the U.S., it's about 20,000 10-letter words. If we then remove proper names, capitalized words, abbreviations, contractions, and possessives, it's about 14,000 words (from "abandoning" to "zygodactyl").
Scrabble dictionaries usually have considerably fewer 10-letter words, because they remove words that can't be formed in normal gameplay. The one I have lists about 50 10-letter words.
Anonymous Person
2005-11-30 01:15:29 UTC
650,421.... oh wait sorry, that was the number of 9 letter words. darn :(
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