Question: how many words in the french language 2016
Answer: French Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé 270,000 ATILF ( 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 ) Italian Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso 260,000 and more The number of `` sayable and writable '' word forms is estimated at over 2 million 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