How many words does the German language have?

I might be wrong but my understandig is that most common languages (English, German, all Latin derived languages - not talking about Asian languages or native languages) tend to have a vocab of 100 - 300 "most used words". read more

All words in the German language, depending on source and method of counting employed, but without technical language: between 500 000 and 750 000 words. If you add in technical terms between 5 to 20 million words. read more

Particular to the German language is the ease to form words and new concepts by simply joining nouns into a new word. There are rules to it but it is impressively simple. That explains how German has hugely large words, especially nouns though many verbs are heavily composed (with prefixes, suffixes), too. read more