List of dictionaries by number of words

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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.

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]
Swedish Svenska Akademiens Ordbok, Svenska Akademien 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. [3][4]
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.[5] [6]
French Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé 270,000 ATILF[7] (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)[8]

 [9]
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 [10]
Danish Ordbog over det danske sprog, Dansk Sprognævn 200,000-300,000 Dansk Sprognævn grows with 5,000 to 7,000 words a year [11]
Russian Большой академический словарь русского языка (The Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language) 150,000 [12]
Portuguese Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa 120,000 The dictionary includes 120,000 separate entries, with 300,000 definitions. [13]
Spanish Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española, 23th edition, 2014 93,000 [14]
Indonesian Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 4th edition, 2008 90,049
Dutch Van Dale, 14th edition, 2005 90,000 [15]
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. [16]
Chinese Zhonghua Zihai 85,568 Number of different characters. The Hanyu Da Cidian defines some 370,000 words. [17][18][19]
Malaysian Kamus Dewan, 4th Edition, 2005 82,900
Korean Dictionary of the Dankook University 53,667 Chinese characters 420,269 compound words [20]

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. ↑ "Engelsk har næppe flere ord end dansk". videnskab.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
  4. ↑ SAOL. Svenska Akademien. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  5. ↑ "Großes Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache". Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Presentation - Site du laboratoire ATILF". www.atilf.fr. Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  8. ↑ "French Dictionary". Larousse. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  9. ↑ "TLFi : Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé - Site du laboratoire ATILF". www.atilf.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-10-28.
  10. ↑ "How many words are there in the English language?". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  11. ↑ "Engelsk har næppe flere ord end dansk". videnskab.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
  12. ↑ Karamian, Mark M.; Golovan, Stanislav A. "THE GREAT ACADEMIC DICTIONARY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE". Academia.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  13. ↑ Entry at Amazon. Amazon.com. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  14. ↑ "Presentación" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  15. ↑ "Structure and history of the Dutch language". Free University of Berlin, Department for Dutch Linguistics. September 14, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  16. ↑ "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.
  17. ↑ Shouhui Zhao, Dongbo Zhang, The Totality of Chinese Characters – A Digital Perspective Archived July 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  18. ↑ Daniel G. Peebles, SCML: A Structural Representation for Chinese Characters, May 29, 2007
  19. ↑ Victor H. Mair, Who Has the Biggest Dictionary?, October 9, 2008
  20. ↑ Victor Mair, Who Has the Biggest Dictionary?, 9 October 2008


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