WORDS: Have you ever heard of a pseudoword? It’s a fake word that appears to be an actual word, but really has no meaning.

Jabberwocky is one example. Galumph is another. Both came from Lewis Carroll.

The man who should be king of adding words to the English language would have to be William Shakespeare. Scholars estimate The Bard added 1,700 words to the language.

Here we go: Lonely, critic, “in a pickle” (did we mention he added phrases, too?), addiction manager, bedroom, bedazzled, undress, eyeball, “brave new world,” amazement, generous, swagger, admirable, eventful, archvillain, radiance, belongings, accommodation, “good riddance,” auspicious and “Greek to me” are but a few.

Do you know anyone named Olivia, Jessica, Imogen, Cordelia, Miranda, or Viola? Those names, or at least their common usage, came from Shakespeare as well.

“In many cases, he turned nouns into verbs (like gossip, elbow and friend) he added the “un-” prefix (unaware, undress, unreal), he put words together (bedroom, lackluster) or created funny descriptors “green-eyed” (jealousy) and “wild-goose chase” (a hopeless quest),” stated the website for Name Stories.

And more — abhor, absolute, balk, brave, character, coil, alligator, anchovy, apostrophe, fortune-teller, foul-mouthed, puppy-dog, cruel-hearted, eyesore, farmhouse, money’s worth.

Shakespeare was incredibly intelligent, with an estimated IQ of 210; the average is 100.

The website Big Think lists Shakespeare as number 5 on a list of the 24 Smartest People Who Ever Lived. Leonardo da Vinci is first; Sir Isaac Newton is second; then Plato, Aristotle and Shakespeare and then Albert Einstein at 6th; next was Confucius, then Marie Curie.

Others include Galileo, Cleopatra, and Garry Kasparov.

That’s some brainy folks.