Webster’s dictionary contained 70 000 words

The creation of Noah Webster's dictionary took 28 years. Twelve thousand of its seventy thousand words had never been published before. Webster thought British spelling was very complicated. He is responsible for the American spellings of words like color, favorite, and honor rather than their British equivalents. He suggested eliminating all silent letters, but his suggestion was not universally accepted. (For example, we still say Young instead of Jung.) His ideas for additional regularizing sounds, such as masheen for machines and wimmen for women, were also disregarded. American-only terms like skunk and squash were also included in Webster's dictionary.

According to Webster, who was a devoted Christian, "Education is nothing without the Bible." His dictionary had more than 6000 references to the Bible, and for many years it was the only one used by the general public to explain the meaning of terms. Some of these definitions, like the one that limits marriage to a union between a man and a woman, are no longer applicable in the current world.

The fact that Webster was able to speak 23 languages contributed to his brilliance as a lexicographer. He was the first language scholar in America. His extensive linguistic knowledge helped him to comprehend the roots of many terms for clearer definitions. He believed that Aramaic was the "mother" language because of his dogmatic Christian leanings. German, Dutch, Spanish, French, Welsh, Italian, Russian, Persian, Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Gothic, Aramaic, Sanskrit, and Old English in addition to Cambridge English are among the languages he has learned.