Welcome to Words for Nerds, our popular and addictive daily science word game. Think of it as science Wordle—a guessing jumble for every nerd, especially the busy life scientist looking to get a ...

Daniel Grill/Tetra Images/Getty Images (dictionary page), Jon Mayer/Mental Floss (background) Figuring out how many words there are in the English language is complicated for a number of reasons.

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an associate professor of English at Husson University’s College of Science and Humanities, provides an approximate answer—and it’s surprisingly nice and even! “How many words are there in ...