Dictionary
In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses 17,677 words: Of those,1,700 were first used by Shakespeare.
This list of words that we use in our daily speech were all brought into usage by Shakespeare:
- accommodation
- aerial
- amazement
- apostrophe
- assassination
- auspicious
- baseless
- bloody
- bump
- castigate
- changeful
- clangor
- control (noun)
- countless
- courtship
- critic
- critical
- dexterously
- dishearten
- dislocate
- dwindle
- eventful
- exposure
- fitful
- frugal
- generous
- gloomy
- gnarled
- hurry
- impartial
- inauspicious
- indistinguishable
- invulnerable
- lapse
- laughable
- lonely
- majestic
- misplaced
- monumental
- multitudinous
- obscene
- palmy
- perusal
- pious
- premeditated
- radiance
- reliance
- road
- sanctimonious
- seamy
- sportive
- submerge
- suspicious