Multilanguage Word Lengths

source

dictionary

UNHR

both

mean word length (UNHR): 5.1mean word length (dictionary): 8.3

	Englishdictionary
	UNHumanRightsEnglish

Average word length varies not only by language, but whether the words are chosen from a dictionary or from written text. This Demonstration shows a sampling of both for many languages. The written text is the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights Preamble (UNHR).