English vocabulary test: how many of the 5,000 do you know?
Forty to fifty words, four meanings each, chosen from wherever your answers say you are. The estimate narrows as you go, and the test stops once it is sure enough.
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You know about %1 of the 5,000You know nearly all of the 5,000: at least %1You know roughly %1 of the 5,000 commonest English words — %2% of the list.You knew every word the test asked, up to the rarest on the list, so all it can honestly say is: more than %1 of the 5,000. Past the end of the list there is nothing harder to ask.Your answers reach the end of the list, so all it can honestly say is: more than %1 of the 5,000. The few you missed are below; past the end of the list there is nothing harder to ask.More than %1: the test has nothing harder to ask.You answered %1 of %2 correctly.Somewhere between %1 and %2 on the answers given.The list is in frequency order, so the words you are missing start around number %1. That is where reading gets easier fastest.You have most of the 5,000. Past this a frequency list stops being the best tool: read widely, and look up what you meet. The rarest words on the list start around number %1.Most of the words you were asked ranked between %1 and %2.That is about %1 word families — the unit the Nation & Beglar Vocabulary Size Test counts, where decide, decided and decision are one — so this is the number to set beside a VST score. The 5,000 words come to %2 families, and the test cannot measure past them.That is at least %1 word families — the unit the Nation & Beglar Vocabulary Size Test counts — out of the %2 families the 5,000 words come to. A VST score can go higher; this test cannot measure past the end of its list.≈ %1 word families
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Every answer is weighed against all the others, so one slip on a word you do know barely moves the number.
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