| Origins/Roots | How Many Words | Consonants | Vowels | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Origin/Root Language | 169570 | 1,419,124 | 820,211 | 737,261 |
| Latin | 5584 | 45,014 | 32,987 | 29,036 |
| Middle English | 4160 | 64,097 | 36,016 | 28,679 |
| French | 2881 | 24,167 | 17,677 | 14,989 |
| Old French | 1913 | 24,820 | 16,512 | 13,827 |
| Ancient Greek | 1733 | 11,013 | 7,187 | 7,171 |
| Middle French | 1101 | 13,608 | 9,641 | 8,308 |
| Old English | 811 | 10,089 | 4,668 | 3,990 |
| Anglo-Norman | 475 | 5,948 | 3,949 | 3,306 |
| Italian | 427 | 2,589 | 1,963 | 1,849 |
| New Latin | 424 | 2,624 | 1,905 | 1,810 |
| English | 416 | 3,642 | 2,071 | 1,867 |
| German | 390 | 2,487 | 1,444 | 1,281 |
| Late Latin | 384 | 3,450 | 2,447 | 2,258 |
| Spanish | 351 | 1,891 | 1,553 | 1,386 |
| Medieval Latin | 259 | 2,609 | 1,900 | 1,728 |
| Old Norse | 223 | 1,807 | 840 | 728 |
| Dutch | 184 | 1,461 | 827 | 667 |
| Arabic | 171 | 806 | 593 | 545 |
| Hebrew | 112 | 600 | 423 | 383 |
| Russian | 109 | 571 | 347 | 333 |
| Japanese | 96 | 355 | 303 | 276 |
| Sanskrit | 95 | 405 | 286 | 274 |
| Portuguese | 88 | 493 | 377 | 334 |
| Hindi | 88 | 373 | 268 | 236 |
| Yiddish | 69 | 396 | 159 | 156 |
| Irish | 67 | 355 | 185 | 175 |
| Middle Dutch | 65 | 862 | 360 | 305 |
| Proto-Germanic | 60 | 406 | 181 | 166 |
| Persian | 56 | 294 | 192 | 186 |
| Malay | 51 | 315 | 198 | 184 |
| Proto-Indo-European | 47 | 240 | 165 | 151 |
| Scots | 47 | 371 | 204 | 180 |
| Turkish | 45 | 174 | 108 | 101 |
| Vulgar Latin | 43 | 204 | 137 | 124 |
| Scottish Gaelic | 37 | 220 | 120 | 110 |
| Middle Low German | 36 | 389 | 159 | 154 |
| Old High German | 35 | 218 | 100 | 88 |
| Mandarin | 33 | 133 | 95 | 76 |
| Swedish | 30 | 178 | 102 | 94 |
| Welsh | 29 | 192 | 97 | 94 |
| Old Irish | 25 | 94 | 65 | 47 |
| Afrikaans | 25 | 141 | 82 | 66 |
| Proto-Albanian | 24 | 105 | 50 | 49 |
| Germanic | 23 | 246 | 117 | 115 |
| Proto-Slavic | 20 | 70 | 39 | 39 |
| Middle High German | 20 | 188 | 73 | 67 |
| Hawaiian | 19 | 42 | 69 | 54 |
| Old Northern French | 19 | 222 | 123 | 100 |
| Nahuatl | 19 | 122 | 100 | 86 |
| Norwegian | 18 | 164 | 75 | 66 |
| Old Portuguese | 18 | 59 | 44 | 39 |
| Danish | 17 | 87 | 43 | 39 |
| Algonquian | 16 | 109 | 69 | 65 |
| Greek | 16 | 90 | 52 | 59 |
| Proto-Celtic | 15 | 45 | 25 | 25 |
| Maori | 15 | 53 | 64 | 53 |
| North Germanic | 13 | 155 | 72 | 61 |
| Narragansett | 13 | 89 | 52 | 41 |
| Translingual | 12 | 55 | 45 | 43 |
| Ojibwe | 12 | 104 | 71 | 70 |
| Hungarian | 11 | 51 | 32 | 30 |
| Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | 11 | 24 | 22 | 21 |
| Dharug | 11 | 66 | 42 | 41 |
| Celtic | 10 | 46 | 26 | 22 |
| Old Dutch | 10 | 76 | 44 | 36 |
| Old Provenal | 10 | 49 | 24 | 23 |
| Swahili | 10 | 35 | 29 | 28 |
| Ukrainian | 10 | 48 | 27 | 28 |
| Burmese | 9 | 36 | 19 | 19 |
| Polish | 9 | 49 | 20 | 19 |
| Romani | 9 | 45 | 22 | 22 |
| Akkadian | 9 | 34 | 19 | 19 |
| Urdu | 9 | 40 | 25 | 24 |
| Powhatan | 9 | 56 | 38 | 33 |
| Tamil | 8 | 46 | 25 | 29 |
| Old Tupi | 8 | 31 | 27 | 27 |
| Cantonese | 8 | 47 | 30 | 23 |
| Frankish | 8 | 45 | 24 | 21 |
| Icelandic | 8 | 63 | 35 | 30 |
| Bengali | 7 | 29 | 18 | 18 |
| Classical Nahuatl | 7 | 27 | 21 | 19 |
| Quechua | 7 | 30 | 25 | 21 |
| Proto-Semitic | 7 | 17 | 8 | 7 |
| Taino | 7 | 29 | 33 | 28 |
| Slavic | 7 | 24 | 14 | 15 |
| Mongolian | 7 | 31 | 22 | 19 |
| Zulu | 7 | 23 | 20 | 20 |
| Ottoman Turkish | 7 | 32 | 18 | 18 |
| West Frisian | 7 | 47 | 28 | 19 |
| Czech | 7 | 30 | 21 | 22 |
| Thai | 7 | 32 | 20 | 14 |
| Guarana | 6 | 25 | 24 | 21 |
| Cree | 6 | 38 | 25 | 22 |
| Finnish | 6 | 20 | 18 | 14 |
| Serbo-Croatian | 6 | 29 | 20 | 20 |
| Tswana | 6 | 30 | 20 | 19 |
| Romanian | 5 | 25 | 21 | 19 |
| Latvian | 5 | 16 | 11 | 10 |
| Chichewa | 5 | 23 | 15 | 14 |

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