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There are millions and trillions of words!

The fact is that no one knows. It can't even be said for certain how many words are in the English language, let alone all the languages of the world. The Oxford English Dictionary, considered to be the most complete dictionary of English, contains 291,500 entries. But it has happened more than once, that I've gone to the OED to look up a word and not found it. New words are constantly being coined, or borrowed, into the language, while others drop out of use.

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