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  2. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words—but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms. [42] [43] [44] Urdu: 264,000

  3. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    Letter frequency is the number of times letters ... which produced a table after measuring 40,000 words. [15] ... 8.600%* 5.817%: 8.286%: 6.50%: 6.000%: 7.578%:

  4. Languages used on the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The number of non-English web pages is rapidly expanding. The use of English online increased by around 281 percent from 2001 to 2011, a lower rate of growth than that of Spanish (743 percent), Chinese (1,277 percent), Russian (1,826 percent) or Arabic (2,501 percent) over the same period.

  5. Official languages of Spain - Wikipedia

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    In the bilingual zone, Spanish is the language spoken at home as a preferred form by 54.5% of the population, while Valencian is preferred by 36.4% and 6.2% use both languages, according to a study performed in 2003 by the Valencian government. [8] Spanish is predominant in the metropolitan area of Valencia, the metropolitan area of Alicante ...

  6. Percentage - Wikipedia

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    An increase of $0.15 on a price of $2.50 is an increase by a fraction of ⁠ 0.15 / 2.50 ⁠ = 0.06. Expressed as a percentage, this is a 6% increase. While many percentage values are between 0 and 100, there is no mathematical restriction and percentages may take on other values. [4]

  7. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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    A computerized survey of about 80,000 words in the third edition of the Shorter Oxford Dictionary, published by Finkenstaedt and Wolff in 1973 estimated the origin of English words to be as follows: [8] [9] French: 28.30%; Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%;

  8. List of countries by English-speaking population - Wikipedia

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    English is one of the official languages under the constitution and is commonly used in education and administration.[8][9][10] According to statistics from various sources, the English-speaking population ranges from 88.69 million[11] to 108 million,[12][13] accounting for 49% to 58% of the total population.[14][15] United Kingdom: 64,000,000

  9. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics – Lottery: The odds of winning the Jackpot (matching the 6 main numbers) in the current 59-ball UK National Lottery Lotto, with a single ticket, under the rules as of December 2024, are 45,057,474 to 1 against, for a probability of 2.219 × 10 −8 (0.000 002 219%). [8] Mathematics – Lottery: The odds of winning the Jackpot ...