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Originally Posted by Billi
I would have thought that e.g. French and German had far more words.
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I just remembered l'Académie Française. They produce the authoritative dictionary of the French language. They still working on the 9th edition, which it is estimated will contain 50,000 words.
And apparently there's something similar in German,
Duden, which contains around 135,000 words.