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Comment by IAmGraydon

2 days ago

300,000? The Oxford dictionary only contains 171,000!

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echoangle  2 days ago

I guess the wordlist with 300k contains all the different forms a word can have while the 171k count is only the base words.

pompomsheep  2 days ago

Haha yeah the 300k list contains so really obscure stuff

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