Origins/Roots | How Many Words | Consonants | Vowels | Syllables |
---|---|---|---|---|
Origin/Root Language | 169570 | 1,419,124 | 820,211 | 737,261 |
Latin | 5584 | 45,014 | 32,987 | 29,036 |
Middle English | 4160 | 64,097 | 36,016 | 28,679 |
French | 2881 | 24,167 | 17,677 | 14,989 |
Old French | 1913 | 24,820 | 16,512 | 13,827 |
Ancient Greek | 1733 | 11,013 | 7,187 | 7,171 |
Middle French | 1101 | 13,608 | 9,641 | 8,308 |
Old English | 811 | 10,089 | 4,668 | 3,990 |
Anglo-Norman | 475 | 5,948 | 3,949 | 3,306 |
Italian | 427 | 2,589 | 1,963 | 1,849 |
New Latin | 424 | 2,624 | 1,905 | 1,810 |
English | 416 | 3,642 | 2,071 | 1,867 |
German | 390 | 2,487 | 1,444 | 1,281 |
Late Latin | 384 | 3,450 | 2,447 | 2,258 |
Spanish | 351 | 1,891 | 1,553 | 1,386 |
Medieval Latin | 259 | 2,609 | 1,900 | 1,728 |
Old Norse | 223 | 1,807 | 840 | 728 |
Dutch | 184 | 1,461 | 827 | 667 |
Arabic | 171 | 806 | 593 | 545 |
Hebrew | 112 | 600 | 423 | 383 |
Russian | 109 | 571 | 347 | 333 |
Japanese | 96 | 355 | 303 | 276 |
Sanskrit | 95 | 405 | 286 | 274 |
Hindi | 88 | 373 | 268 | 236 |
Portuguese | 88 | 493 | 377 | 334 |
Yiddish | 69 | 396 | 159 | 156 |
Irish | 67 | 355 | 185 | 175 |
Middle Dutch | 65 | 862 | 360 | 305 |
Proto-Germanic | 60 | 406 | 181 | 166 |
Persian | 56 | 294 | 192 | 186 |
Malay | 51 | 315 | 198 | 184 |
Proto-Indo-European | 47 | 240 | 165 | 151 |
Scots | 47 | 371 | 204 | 180 |
Turkish | 45 | 174 | 108 | 101 |
Vulgar Latin | 43 | 204 | 137 | 124 |
Scottish Gaelic | 37 | 220 | 120 | 110 |
Middle Low German | 36 | 389 | 159 | 154 |
Old High German | 35 | 218 | 100 | 88 |
Mandarin | 33 | 133 | 95 | 76 |
Swedish | 30 | 178 | 102 | 94 |
Welsh | 29 | 192 | 97 | 94 |
Old Irish | 25 | 94 | 65 | 47 |
Afrikaans | 25 | 141 | 82 | 66 |
Proto-Albanian | 24 | 105 | 50 | 49 |
Germanic | 23 | 246 | 117 | 115 |
Proto-Slavic | 20 | 70 | 39 | 39 |
Middle High German | 20 | 188 | 73 | 67 |
Nahuatl | 19 | 122 | 100 | 86 |
Hawaiian | 19 | 42 | 69 | 54 |
Old Northern French | 19 | 222 | 123 | 100 |
Old Portuguese | 18 | 59 | 44 | 39 |
Norwegian | 18 | 164 | 75 | 66 |
Danish | 17 | 87 | 43 | 39 |
Algonquian | 16 | 109 | 69 | 65 |
Greek | 16 | 90 | 52 | 59 |
Proto-Celtic | 15 | 45 | 25 | 25 |
Maori | 15 | 53 | 64 | 53 |
North Germanic | 13 | 155 | 72 | 61 |
Narragansett | 13 | 89 | 52 | 41 |
Ojibwe | 12 | 104 | 71 | 70 |
Translingual | 12 | 55 | 45 | 43 |
Dharug | 11 | 66 | 42 | 41 |
Hungarian | 11 | 51 | 32 | 30 |
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | 11 | 24 | 22 | 21 |
Swahili | 10 | 35 | 29 | 28 |
Ukrainian | 10 | 48 | 27 | 28 |
Celtic | 10 | 46 | 26 | 22 |
Old Dutch | 10 | 76 | 44 | 36 |
Old Provenal | 10 | 49 | 24 | 23 |
Akkadian | 9 | 34 | 19 | 19 |
Urdu | 9 | 40 | 25 | 24 |
Powhatan | 9 | 56 | 38 | 33 |
Burmese | 9 | 36 | 19 | 19 |
Polish | 9 | 49 | 20 | 19 |
Romani | 9 | 45 | 22 | 22 |
Tamil | 8 | 46 | 25 | 29 |
Cantonese | 8 | 47 | 30 | 23 |
Old Tupi | 8 | 31 | 27 | 27 |
Frankish | 8 | 45 | 24 | 21 |
Icelandic | 8 | 63 | 35 | 30 |
Ottoman Turkish | 7 | 32 | 18 | 18 |
West Frisian | 7 | 47 | 28 | 19 |
Czech | 7 | 30 | 21 | 22 |
Thai | 7 | 32 | 20 | 14 |
Bengali | 7 | 29 | 18 | 18 |
Classical Nahuatl | 7 | 27 | 21 | 19 |
Quechua | 7 | 30 | 25 | 21 |
Proto-Semitic | 7 | 17 | 8 | 7 |
Taino | 7 | 29 | 33 | 28 |
Slavic | 7 | 24 | 14 | 15 |
Mongolian | 7 | 31 | 22 | 19 |
Zulu | 7 | 23 | 20 | 20 |
Finnish | 6 | 20 | 18 | 14 |
Serbo-Croatian | 6 | 29 | 20 | 20 |
Tswana | 6 | 30 | 20 | 19 |
Guarana | 6 | 25 | 24 | 21 |
Cree | 6 | 38 | 25 | 22 |
Proto-Malayic | 5 | 12 | 9 | 9 |
Kazakh | 5 | 23 | 14 | 14 |
Malayalam | 5 | 22 | 19 | 17 |