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by Vindicis 1575 days ago
On the homepage of the OED it says "More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years". Who's right? Who knows anymore.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Entr...

> Supplementing the entry headwords, there are

> 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives;[8]

> 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations;[9]

> 616,500 word-forms in total,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headword

> The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has around 273,000 headwords along with 220,000 lemmas [word, compound, phrase, or derivative],[2]