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Languages with the Largest Vocabularies

This list features the languages with the largest number of words in their respective dictionaries.

RANK

LANGUAGE

WORDS IN THE DICTIONARY

1

Korean

1,149,548

2

Portuguese

818,000

3

Finnish

800,000

4

English

755,865

5

Swedish

600,000

6

Italian

500,000

7

Japanese

500,000

8

Lithuanian

500,000

9

Northern Kurdish

411,864

10

Serbo-Croatian

400,000

11

Dutch

400,000

12

Russian

150,000

13

Spanish

93,000

14

Chinese

85,568


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References

Iti Translates, 2023. Which language is richest in words? [online] Available at: https://ititranslates.com/which-language-is-richest-in-words/ [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Rosetta Stone, 2023. Which language has the most words? [online] Available at: https://blog.rosettastone.com/which-language-has-the-most-words/ [Accessed 1 December 2025]. National Institute of the Korean Language, 2023. Standard Korean Dictionary. [online] Available at: https://www.korean.go.kr [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Shogakukan, 2024. Nihongo Daijiten. [online] Available at: https://www.shogakukan.co.jp [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Zanichelli, 2023. Zingarelli Dictionary of the Italian Language. [online] Available at: https://www.zanichelli.it [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Oxford University Press, 2024. Oxford English Dictionary. [online] Available at: https://www.oed.com [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Great Dictionary of the Russian Language, 2023. [online] Available at: https://www.rusdic.ru [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Real Academia Española, 2023. Diccionario de la lengua española. [online] Available at: https://www.rae.es [Accessed 1 December 2025]. The Commercial Press, 2023. Xiandai Hanyu Cidian (现代汉语词典). [online] Available at: http://www.cp.com.cn[Accessed 1 December 2025]. Royal Institute of Thailand, 2023. Royal Institute Dictionary. [online] Available at: http://www.royin.go.th [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Türk Dil Kurumu, 2023. Turkish Dictionary. [online] Available at: http://www.tdk.gov.tr [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Van Dale, 2023. Van Dale Dictionary of the Dutch Language. [online] Available at: https://www.vandale.nl [Accessed 1 December 2025]. Wikipedia contributors, 2024. List of dictionaries by number of words. In: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictionaries_by_number_of_words [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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