How Many Words did Shakespeare Invent?

It is unclear exactly how many words Shakespeare invented, but he did have a great influence on the English language. S works are the earliest cited written record in most dictionaries such as the OED-Oxford English Dictionary. Bare in mind that words are most often used orally before they are written down and recorded.

Shakespeare coined many of his own words, played around with others, used existing words in new and imaginative contexts, and joined pairs of words together to create compounds like watchdog (in The Tempest) and birthplace (in Coriolanus). He used rhetorical devices extensively, reworked the order of words in lines to fit rhythms and metres, and used puns and wordplay for humor, even making some of his characters deliberately misspeak or mispronounce their words purely for comic effect.As a result, his works provide the earliest citations of more than 9,000 different entries in the Oxford English Dictionary, while some estimates suggest that of the 31,534 different words.

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