Dictionary
11,889 entries. A word that is more than one part of speech is counted under each of them, so the counts below add up to more than 11,889.
| Part of speech | What the entry carries | Entries |
|---|---|---|
| Verbs | every tense, person and polarity, built by the engine | 2,484 |
| Nouns | six cases, singular and plural, and the six possessives | 6,766 |
| Adjectives | degrees, and the to-be forms that go with them | 2,075 |
| Adverbs | how, when or where something happens. | 744 |
| Participles | a verb form used as an adjective, listed as its own entry where it has hardened into a word. | 341 |
| Interjections | a call or an exclamation, standing outside the sentence. | 202 |
| Pronouns | a word standing in for a noun. | 167 |
| Numerals | a number word, and the forms built on it. | 103 |
| Particles | a small word carrying emphasis, doubt or question rather than a meaning of its own. | 91 |
| Postpositions | a word placed after a noun, where English puts a preposition in front. | 79 |
| Conjunctions | a word joining two words or two clauses. | 30 |
| Determiners | a word placed before a noun to point it out: this, that, every. | 17 |
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