wordhoard means vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person. It carries an Arena rating of 1847, earned across 18 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, wordhoard ranks #109 of 42,747 for Qualifying, #526 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #1,042 of 17,163 for Funniest Words, #1,439 of 17,130 for Most Beautiful Words.
Why “wordhoard” is a great word
A person's stored treasury of words, a personal lexicon conceived as a valued collection. A modern revival of Old English wordhord (from word, "word" + hord, "hoard, treasure"), first attested in the Old English period (pre-1150). Unlike "vocabulary," a neutral inventory of words known, or "thesaurus," a formal reference of synonyms, wordhoard evokes the intimate, internal cache of language one guards. It is the worn coinage of childhood nicknames, the precise, forgotten name for a kitchen tool in a grandmother's drawer, and the hoarded phrase held back until exactly the right moment of speech, gleaming in the mind's locked chamber like a Saxon arm-ring—language not as function, but as inherited wealth.
Etymology
A modern revival of Old English wordhord (“treasury of words”). Compare Dutch woordenschat, German Wortschatz. By surface analysis, word + hoard.
noun
- Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.
- Thesaurus.
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