List of dictionaries by number of words

This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included number of words in a language.

Largest dictionary in the given language

Language Approx. no. of headwords Approx. no. of definitions Dictionary NotesTamilSorkuvaiAn online open dictionary run by the Tamil Nadu government. The dictionary contains 1,549,495 words.KoreanUrimalsaemOnline open dictionary run by South Korean government, including North Korean dialects (66,172 words).English1,695,049English WiktionaryContains 1,453,952 total entries and 923,306 gloss entries. Out of 1,695,049 total definitions, there are 968,139 gloss definitions and 726,910 form definitions.PortugueseAulete DigitalOnline dictionary with over 818,000 entries.FinnishRedFox ProOnline dictionary. The free version has over 300,000 Finnish words and the Pro version has over 800,000 Finnish words. The dictionary has agglomerated other dictionaries, such as technical ones, and the largest set comes from Wordnet. This dictionary essentially does not include inflections.English888,251Oxford English DictionaryOED also contains 3,927,862 quotations and 821,712 historical thesaurus entries.KoreanStandard Korean Language DictionaryContains 511,282 entries.SwedishSvenska Akademiens ordbok, Swedish Academyhttps://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication/3f489a1f-de3d-4bfa-96c7-19b33c412f6cItalianGrande Dizionario Hoepli ItalianoThe number of "sayable and writable" word-forms is estimated at over 2 million.JapaneseNihon Kokugo DaijitenLithuanianLietuvių kalbos žodynas (Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian)The largest dictionary of the Lithuanian language: consists of 22 000 pages, includes more than 11 million words with quotations from all kinds of writing and dialect records between 1547 and 2001. Accessible online at www.lkz.lt.EnglishWebster's Third New International Dictionary and Addenda SectionContains 470,000 entries.Northern KurdishKurdish WiktionaryContains 411,550 entries (160,130 lemma, 237,294 non-lemma) in Northern Kurdish, among a total of 1,004,698 entries in 3837 languages.FrenchFrench WiktionaryContains more than 408,000 lemma, associated to more than 636,500 definitions and 1,880,500 inflections, distributed other 1,924,200 entries.CroatianRječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezikaPublished from 1880 to 1976 in 97 fascicles collected into 23 volumes under the auspices of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, estimated at a minimum of 400,000 words by Dragica Malić.Malić, Dragica (1980) "Akademijin rječnik i njegove dopune" in Rasprave: Časopis Instituta za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Vol. 6-7, No. 1, pages 121–139 Includes only words found in the Shtokavian dialect; words from Chakavian and Kajkavian dialects are excluded.DutchWoordenboek der Nederlandsche TaalThe 43 volumes of the WNT (including three supplements) consist of 49,255 pages, describing Dutch words from 1500 to 1976.ChineseHanyu Da CidianThe 3rd edition of the digital version contains 18,014 single-character words, 336,706 compound words, 23,383 idioms (chengyu), 504,040 definitions, and 861,956 examples.FinnishSuomen murteiden sanakirja (in progress)Suomen murteiden sanakirja (SMS) will include 350,000 words from different dialects, with well-documented definitions, based on the archives (Suomen murteiden sana-arkisto) of 400,000 words, with over 8 million definitions.PersianDehkhoda Dictionary, 1998, The original series initially consisted of 3 million records ( (French: fiche) or "barge") (up to 100 meanings/records for each word or proper noun) until Dehkhoda's death in March 1956, and currently contains 343,466 entries that, according to the latest digital release of the dictionary by Tehran University Press (version 3.0) are based on an ever-growing library of over 2,300 volumes in lexicology and various other scientific fields.Dehkhoda DictionaryNorwegianNorsk OrdbokThe finished dictionary has about 330,000 headwords, whereas the corpus it's built upon contains about 500,000 words in total.GermanDeutsches Wörterbuch330,000 words in use since the mid-fifteenth century. Also available online .TurkishÖtüken Türkçe SözlükTurkish dictionary (Old and Middle Turkic, Ottoman and Modern Turkish), includes 316,000 entries.DutchEtymologisch woordenboek van het NederlandsNorwegianTanums store rettskrivningsordbok (10. utgave)A dictionary of orthography.UkrainianUkrainian lexicon of the late 18th — early 21st centuries: dictionary-index: in 3 volumesLexical dictionary..Urdu823,743Rekhta DictionaryRekhta Dictionary, an initiative of Rekhta Foundation is a multi-lingual dictionary available in three scripts, i.e. Urdu, Devanagari and Roman.GujaratiBhagavadgomandal2.81 lakh words and their meanings in 9 volumes. Also serves as an encyclopedia with almost 8.22 lakh words.Romanian dexonlineOnline dictionary. Project of digitisation of 67 general, specialty and archaic dictionaries. Launched in 2001. As of 2023, it contained over 280,000 unique words and 1,065,000 definitions.SerbianDictionary of Serbo-Croatian Literary and Vernacular Language ()It is an Academy-level dictionary, currently consisting of 22 published volumes with approximately 266,000 words. The completed work is expected to contain around 500,000 words. Some academics working on the dictionary like Vasa Pavković estimate that the dictionary will have between 550,000 and 600,000 terms. UrduUrdu LughatUkrainianВеликий орфографічний словник сучасної української лексикиA dictionary of orthography. Contains 253,000 entries (253,000 words).CzechNine volumes of this dictionary were printed in years 1935–1957. They contain about 250,000 words, their meanings and example usage from literature. The dictionary is available online.Portuguese382,000Houaiss Dictionary of the Portuguese Language228,000 entries and 382,000 meanings.BelarusianВялікі слоўнік беларускай мовы: арфаграфія, акцэнтуацыя, парадыгматыкаEnglish 732,000 Collins English DictionaryMore than 732,000 words, meanings, and phrases (14th edition).Russian250,000Толковый словарь живого великорусского языкаThe 3rd edition by Baudouin de Courtenay contains about 250,000 entries (220,000 words and 30,000 proverbs).Indonesian 232,094Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 6th edition, 2024FinnishNykysuomen sanakirja, 1961Nykysuomen sanakirja can be translated to The Dictionary of Modern Finnish or The Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish, but the language can be quite dated; the dictionary only reflects the language as it was no later than 1961. Even though it has been published again, it has not been updated. The dictionary contains over 201,000 headwords in six volumes.Kolehmainen, Taru: Kielikello 10/1977. For modern language, The New Dictionary of Modern Finnish is more relevant.EnglishThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth EditionThe third edition contained "more than 200,000 boldface forms" (entries). The fourth and fifth editions each added roughly 10,000 additional "new words and senses". It is not clear how many of these were new words.GermanGroßes Wörterbuch der deutschen SpracheDictionary by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities of over 200,000 contemporary words.Norwegian (bokmål)Det Norske Akademis ordbokThe Norwegian Academy Dictionary contains more than 200,000 entries and more than 300,000 literary quotes. Furthermore, it contains fixed expressions and pronunciation.The dictionary is free and edited daily.DanishOrdbog over det danske SprogDictionary maintained by the . Covers Danish language use 1700–1950.Ordbog over det danske Sprog , Society for Danish Language and Literature The society also maintains a sister dictionary, covering language use since 1950.Slovak Slovník slovenského jazyka z r. 1959 – 1968, Slovník súčasného slovenského jazyka A – G, H – L, M – N z r. 2006, 2011, 2015Here is the information about the number of words in Slovak written by Jazykovedný ústav Ľ. Štúra SAV.TibetanRangjung Yeshe Dharma Dictionary Considering the large number of Buddhist terminology, colloquial expressions and modern literary Tibetan neologisms not included in this dictionary, the actual total number is probably about twice the number of terms included on this website (195,919), perhaps 375–400,000 Tibetan words in total.SanskritMonier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary, 1899 (IITS Koelin)The work of Monier Monier-Williams, who as a Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford.HindiHindi WiktionaryA free dictionary that gives everyone the right to edit.Kazakh15 томдық "Қазақ тілінің түсіндірме сөздігі"Explanatory dictionary of the Kazakh language.GermanGerman WiktionaryContains 165,700 german gloss entries.RomanianDLRDicționarul Limbii Române.SerbianMatica SrpskaA comprehensive six-volume dictionary of the modern Serbian literary language. It contains approximately 150,000 words and represents the most important complete dictionary of the Serbian language since the 19th-century works. A one-volume condensed version was published in 2007.BelarusianСлоўнік беларускай мовыIcelandicOrðabók BlöndalsThe dictionary contains 150,000 headwords in 17 volumes.RussianБольшой академический словарь русского языкаGreat Academy Dictionary of Russian language.Swiss GermanSchweizerisches IdiotikonThe dictionary contains 150,000 words from the late Middle Ages to today.GermanDuden – Die deutsche RechtschreibungThe most influential dictionary in Germany, a dictionary of orthography. Eastern Armenian Արդի հայերենի բացատրական բառարան Explanatory Dictionary of Modern Armenian is a four-volume dictionary of Eastern Armenian. Published in Yerevan in 1976 it remains the most comprehensive lexicographic work for modern Armenian.PolishWielki słownik ortograficzny PWNBig orthography dictionary PWN contains new words, proper nouns and latest spelling changes.FrenchTrésor de la Langue Française informatiséATILF (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).UkrainianСловник української мови (The Dictionary of the Ukrainian language)The dictionary was finished in late 1970s–early 1980s.DutchWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal (Het Groene Boekje)RussianБольшой толковый словарь русского языкаGreat Dictionary of Russian language.SwedishRikstermbankenSweden's national term bank.SwedishSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)Normative Swedish language spelling dictionary, 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.SAOL . Svenska Akademien. Retrieved August 14, 2016.SanskritEncyclopaedic Dictionary of Sanskrit on Historical PrinciplesDevised by Professor Sumitra Mangesh Katre at Deccan College in 1948. The dictionary is based on a collection of 1469 Sanskrit treatises covering over 3,000 years of Sanskrit, from the Vedas (1400 BCE) up to Hāsyarṇava (1850 CE). The Dictionary includes 62 branches of knowledge including the Darśana (Indian Philosophy), Vyākaraṇa, Amarakośaṃ, subject specific dictionaries, literature, science, mathematics, medicine, veterinary sciences, games, music, warfare, etc.