about how many words did shakespeare create in english language?
Soon, however, he became both an accomplished actor and dramatist. At a final tally, Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and five poetry collections, writing 17,677 unique words, with a final word count of over one million. Shockingly, 1,700 of these 17,677 words were invented by Shakespeare. The first time they appeared in print or in speech was in the works of Shakespeare. No author could get away with that today, probably in any language. Some of these words are now so commonplace that itâs a wonder how English speakers got by without them.