Answer:
273,000 words
Step-by-step explanation:
Estimated a dictionary contains and defines a total of 273,000 words. However out of 273,000 words only 171,476 words are currently in use and the rest are considered obsolete and those words are not used by the majority of people speaking English language. In English language there are about a million words out of which only 171,476 are currently in use.