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Monday, September 11, 2006

Answerbag Q&A

Q: How many four letter words exist in the English language? (excluding curse words.)

A: I did not exclude curse words because that can differ based on region, era, and cultural background.

With 26 letters in the English alphabet, there are 45,6976 possible 4 letter combinations (26*26*26*26). Out of these, only 2746 are not words. That means the remaining 45,6976 are words.

List of non-words with 4 letters can be found here.


Question found on Answerbag.com. Answer is mine.

1 comment:

dylnenett said...

With 26 characters in the British abc, there are 45,6976 possible 4 correspondence blends (26*26*26*26). Out of these, only 2746 are not terms. That indicates the staying 45,6976 are terms.




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