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Posted by abnry 6/19/2026

How many of the 170k English words do you know?(vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app)
501 points | 554 commentspage 20
bjourne 7 days ago|
Why not add keyboard shortcuts? Would make a much more polished desktop experience.
londons_explore 7 days ago||
Did the first 25, got all correct, got bored.

It needs some kind of auto adjusting difficulty...

SideburnsOfDoom 7 days ago|
The difficulty goes up once every 20 words.

The final 2 categories were the ones that I found interesting, I had to guess a few times.

Got all correct though.

ItsBob 6/19/2026||
Apparently I know 70,000 words... I got 90 out of 100 and it thinks I'm Stephen Fry!
djmips 7 days ago||
I got 4 wrong but also I was getting weary and I made a couple of bad clicks.
jdiff 6/19/2026||
78,250 is way more than I expected. I sure don't feel like I know 78,000 words.
croisillon 6/19/2026||
i remember of such a link in July 2011 but i could only find that one which is a bit different

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2806377

yorwba 6/19/2026|
How did you manage to remember the exact month? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=testyourvocab.com
croisillon 7 days ago||
oh that's the correct link, well done! i distinctly remember the condition i was and that can only be July 2011 ; i have been lurking 2 more years before eventually creating an account here
danbrooks 7 days ago||
Super high scores for the community!

I got 83/100 suggesting 60,000.

My SAT reading was 760/800.

leecoursey 7 days ago||
The correct response for each word is ALMOST always the longest answer.
herczegzsolt 7 days ago||
Desperately needs a skip button for words I don't know.
geuis 7 days ago|
There are no hard words in this puzzle. This is all basic English.
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