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This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included. These figures do not take account of entries with senses for different word classes (such as noun and adjective) and homographs. Although it is possible to count the number of entries in a dictionary, it is not possible to count the number of words in a language. In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining whether the word exists.[citation needed]

Language Dictionary Approximate number of words Notes References
Icelandic Orðabók Háskólans More than 610,000 43,000 basic words and 519,000 compound words of which more than half are attested only once or don't get into print (“instant combinations”) [1]
Japanese Nihon Kokugo Daijiten More than 500,000 [2]
Lithuanian Lietuvių kalbos žodynas (Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian) More than 500,000 22,000 pages in 20 volumes with quotations from all kinds of writing and dialect records between 1547 and 2001. Accessible online at www.lkz.lt. [3]
Swedish Svenska Akademiens ordbok, Swedish Academy 470,000-600,000 After having completed letters A through T SAOB includes 470,000 words, but is estimated to include 600,000 words when the alphabet is complete in 2017. Svenska Akademiens ordlista, which includes only commonly used words, currently includes ~126,000 words after having added 13,500 and removed 9,000 in its latest edition, SAOL 14, plus an additional 200,000 still encountered words in earlier editions. [4][5]
German Deutsches Wörterbuch 330,000 330,000 words in use since the mid-fifteenth century. — Duden's Großes Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache contains over 200,000 contemporary words.[6] [7]
French Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé 270,000 ATILF[8] (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française – Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language)

135,000 (Larousse Dictionnaire de français, published by Editions Larousse)[9]

[10]
Italian Grande dizionario italiano dell’uso More than 260,000 The number of "sayable and writable" word forms is estimated at over 2 million [11]
English Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition 228,000 171,476 words in current use, 47,156 obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries [12]
Danish Ordbog over det danske sprog, Dansk Sprognævn 200,000-300,000 Dansk Sprognævn grows with 5,000 to 7,000 words a year [13]
Russian Большой академический словарь русского языка (The Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language) 150,000 [14]
Portuguese Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa 120,000 The dictionary includes 120,000 separate entries, with 300,000 definitions. [15]
Slovene Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika, Second edition, 2014 110,180 The official dictionary of modern Slovene is Slovar slovenskega knjižnega jezika (SSKJ; Standard Slovene Dictionary). It was published in five volumes by Državna Založba Slovenije between 1970 and 1991 and contains more than 100,000 entries and subentries with accentuation, part-of-speech labels, common collocations, and various qualifiers. In the 1990s, an electronic version of the dictionary was published and it is available online. [16]
Spanish Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española, 23th edition, 2014 93,000 [17]
Indonesian Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 4th edition, 2008 90,049
Dutch Van Dale, 14th edition, 2005 90,000 [18]
Bulgarian Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language (monolingual academic explanatory dictionary), (Многотомен) Речник на българския език in Bulgarian, in 15+ volumes 119,200+ headwords This dictionary covers vocabulary from the last 150 years of the Bulgarian language and is compiled and edited by linguistics (primarily native lexicographers and lexicologists) from The Institute for the Bulgarian Language (part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). It includes basic, commonly used, literary, colloquial, dialectical, archaic and obsolete Bulgarian words, as well as some specialized terminology. The latest volume (15th) published in 2015 ends with headwords beginning with the (Bulgarian Cyrillic) letter Р. [19]
Chinese Zhonghua Zihai 85,568 Number of different characters in use throughout several millennia of written history. The Hanyu Da Cidian defines some 370,000 words. [20][21][22]
Malaysian Kamus Dewan, 4th Edition, 2005 82,900
Arabic Lisaan al-Arab, 1290 80,000[23]
Catalan Diccionari de la llengua catalana (Dictionary of the Catalan language of the Institute of Catalan Studies (DIEC)) 69,988 The dictionary includes 69,988 headwords and 132,343 definitions.
Korean Dictionary of the Dankook University 53,667 Hanja 420,269 compound words [22]
Esperanto Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto) 16,780 words 46,890 lexical units [24]

References

  1. ^ "Hvað eru til mörg orð í íslensku?". University of Iceland. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  2. ^ "NIHON KOKUGO DAIJITEN". Indiana University. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language". 2002. Retrieved March 17, 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  4. ^ "Engelsk har næppe flere ord end dansk". videnskab.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
  5. ^ SAOL. Svenska Akademien. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  6. ^ "Großes Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache". Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  7. ^ "Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm (The German Dictionary of the Brothers Grimm)". Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities & Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 16 August 2016. Also available online.
  8. ^ "Presentation - Site du laboratoire ATILF". www.atilf.fr. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  9. ^ "French Dictionary". Larousse. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  10. ^ "TLFi : Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé - Site du laboratoire ATILF". www.atilf.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  11. ^ "Quante parole ci sono nel dizionario italiano?". Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  12. ^ "How many words are there in the English language?". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  13. ^ "Engelsk har næppe flere ord end dansk". videnskab.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
  14. ^ Karamian, Mark M.; Golovan, Stanislav A. "THE GREAT ACADEMIC DICTIONARY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE". Academia.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  15. ^ Entry at Amazon. Amazon.com. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  16. ^ http://www.mladinska.com/sskj/o_drugi_izdaji_sskj
  17. ^ "Presentación" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  18. ^ "Structure and history of the Dutch language". Free University of Berlin, Department for Dutch Linguistics. September 14, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  19. ^ "Online edition of the 15 volumes of The (Explanatory) Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language (in Bulgarian)". many publishers, primarily The Academic Publishing House of The Institute for the Bulgarian Language. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  20. ^ Shouhui Zhao, Dongbo Zhang, The Totality of Chinese Characters – A Digital Perspective Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ Daniel G. Peebles, SCML: A Structural Representation for Chinese Characters, May 29, 2007
  22. ^ a b Victor H. Mair, Who Has the Biggest Dictionary?, October 9, 2008. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  23. ^ The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics, p. 268. Edited by Keith Allan
  24. ^ Blahuš, Marek. A Spell Checker for Esperanto. Brno : Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, 2008. 40 pp. Bachelor thesis. Text in English. Supervisor RNDr. Petr Sojka, Ph.D. Available online: [1] p. 17


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