List of languages by number of words
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This is a list of languages by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included in the dictionary considered the most authoritative or complete in each language. These figures do not take account of entries with senses for different word classes (such as noun and adjective) and homographs.
| Language | Dictionary | Approximate number of words | Notes | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | Nihon Kokugo Daijiten | More than 500,000 | [1] | |
| 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. | [2][3] |
| 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.[4] | [5] |
| 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 | [6] |
| Danish | Ordbog over det danske sprog, Dansk Sprognævn | 200,000-300,000 | Dansk Sprognævn grows with 5,000 to 7,000 words a year | [7] |
| Russian | Большой академический словарь русского языка (The Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language) | 150,000 | [8] | |
| French | Larousse Dictionnaire de français, published by Editions Larousse | 135,000 | [9] | |
| Portuguese | Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa | 120,000 | The dictionary includes 120,000 separate entries, with 300,000 definitions. | [10] |
| Spanish | Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española, 23th edition, 2014 | 93,000 | [11] | |
| Dutch | Van Dale, 14th edition, 2005 | 90,000 | [12] | |
| Chinese | Zhonghua Zihai | 85,568 | Number of different characters. The Hanyu Da Cidian defines some 370,000 words. | [13][14][15] |
| Korean | Dictionary of the Dankook University | 53,667 Chinese characters | 420,269 compound words | [16] |
References[edit]
- ↑ "NIHON KOKUGO DAIJITEN". Indiana University. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ↑ "Engelsk har næppe flere ord end dansk". videnskab.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
- ↑ SAOL. Svenska Akademien. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ "Großes Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache". Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "How many words are there in the English language?". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ↑ "Engelsk har næppe flere ord end dansk". videnskab.dk. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
- ↑ Karamian, Mark M.; Golovan, Stanislav A. "THE GREAT ACADEMIC DICTIONARY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE". Academia.edu. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ↑ "DICTIONNAIRE DE FRANÇAIS". Larousse. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ↑ Entry at Amazon. Amazon.com. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
- ↑ "Presentación" (in Spanish). Real Academia Española. Retrieved 6 August 2016.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ "Structure and history of the Dutch language". Free University of Berlin, Department for Dutch Linguistics. September 14, 2009. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
- ↑ Shouhui Zhao, Dongbo Zhang, The Totality of Chinese Characters – A Digital Perspective Template:Wayback
- ↑ Daniel G. Peebles, SCML: A Structural Representation for Chinese Characters, May 29, 2007
- ↑ Victor H. Mair, Who Has the Biggest Dictionary?, October 9, 2008
- ↑ Victor Mair, Who Has the Biggest Dictionary?, 9 October 2008
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