How many words are in the dictionaries?
There are 64,150 Japanese words cross-referenced with 104,694 English words. This is because many words do not have a 1:1 relationship. If you look up the Japanese word kokoro you will see that it can mean mind or body or spirit, now looking up spirit (exactly) as an English word will give you 43 possible Japanese words that can mean spirit (of which kokoro is ninth). The master dictionary table contains 71,511 entries.
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