List of dictionaries by number of words

Table columns:
Language
Dictionary
Approximate number of words
Notes
References

Table rows:
cells: Korean
우리말샘 (Woori Mal Saem, 2017)
1,100,373
Online open dictionary including dialects of South and North Korea.
[1]
cells: Turkish
Büyük Türkçe Sözlük
616,767
Online dictionary of the Turkish Language Association
[2]
cells: Swedish
Svenska Akademiens ordbok, Swedish Academy
~600,000
After having completed letters A through T SAOB included 470,000 words, but 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]
cells: Icelandic
Orðabók Háskólans
~560,000
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”)
[5]
cells: Japanese
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
500,000 and more
[6]
cells: Lithuanian
Lietuvių kalbos žodynas (Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian)
500,000 and more
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.
[7]
cells: Norwegian
Norsk Ordbok
ca. 500,000
[8]
cells: Dutch
Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal
ca. 400,000
The 43 volumes of the WNT (including three supplements) consist of 49,255 pages, describing Dutch words from 1500 to 1976.
[9]
cells: 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.[10]
[11]
cells: Gujarati
Bhagavadgomandal
281,377
2.81 lakh words and their meanings in 9 volumes. Also serves as an encyclopedia with almost 8.22 lakh words.
[12]
cells: French
Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé
270,000
ATILF[13] (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)[14]
[15]
cells: Italian
Grande dizionario italiano dell’uso
260,000 and more
The number of "sayable and writable" word forms is estimated at over 2 million
[16]
cells: English
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition
171,476
Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type, and 169,000 phrases and combinations in bold italic type, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.[17][18] There is one count that puts the English vocabulary at about 1 million words — but that count presumably includes words such as Latin species names, prefixed and suffixed words, scientific terminology, jargon, foreign words of extremely limited English use and technical acronyms.[19]
[20][21]
cells: Danish
Ordbog over det danske sprog, Dansk Sprognævn
200,000-300,000
Dansk Sprognævn grows with 5,000 to 7,000 words a year
[22]
cells: Russian
Большой академический словарь русского языка (The Great Academic Dictionary of the Russian Language)
150,000
[23]
cells: Ukrainian
Словник української мови (The Dictionary of the Ukrainian language)
134 058
The dictionary was finished in late 1970s - early 1980s
[24][25]
cells: Tamil
University of Madras Tamil Lexicon
124,405
The dictionary includes 124,405 separate entries.
[26]
cells: Portuguese
Grande Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa
120,000
The dictionary includes 120,000 separate entries, with 300,000 definitions.
[27]
cells: 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.
[28]
cells: Spanish
Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española, 23th edition, 2014
93,000
[29]
cells: Indonesian
Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 4th edition, 2008
90,049
cells: Dutch
Van Dale, 14th edition, 2005
90,000
[30]
cells: Bulgarian
Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language (monolingual academic explanatory dictionary), (Многотомен) Речник на българския език in Bulgarian, in 15+ volumes
119,200 and more 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.
[31]
cells: 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.
[32][33][34]
cells: Malaysian
Kamus Dewan, 4th Edition, 2005
82,900
cells: 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.
[35]
cells: Classical Latin
Oxford Latin Dictionary
40,000
Approximately 40,000 entries with 100,000 senses.
cells: Esperanto
Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto)
16,780
46,890 lexical units
[36]

Questions about this table:
originalText: how many words in the french language 2016
answer: answerTexts: 270,000