Test your vocuba– vacub–how many words you know

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Right. It’s been a couple of days of Very Serious posts here at Wis[s]e Words, my head’s full of mucus danks to de cold I’ve managed to pick up from some cow-orker, so it’s time for something light: test your vocabulary:


I know 42,700 words. You?

Which is not as good as Vuijlsteke…

2 Comments

  • guthrie

    July 31, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Wow, I only got 38,000 and I know I have a larger vocabulary than most people. The problem was the specialised words which I knew but hadn’t seen for years.

  • Martin Wisse

    July 31, 2011 at 3:43 pm

    The trick is to read a lot of science fiction and fantasy and all that written by people who delight in showing off their erudition…