How many words are in the Accio dictionaries?

The number of "entries" is hard to specify, because dictionary makers have different ways of counting. Also, different dictionaries have different content. Nevertheless, here are some indications:

• Our English dictionary of definitions has over 100,000 entries, under some 65,000 headwords.
  
  
• Most of our bilingual dictionaries contain approximately 80,000 translation entries. Note that because of technical limitations of the iPod, these dictionaries are considerably smaller (about 5000 translations), but have been carefully edited to include most common words.
  
  
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Where do the Accio databases come from?

Most Accio databases are developed by our team of language experts; certain specialized databases come from major publishing houses which have asked us to handle the electronic versions of their dictionaries. Virtually all databases are in constant evolution, most of them adding thousands of entries every year.

Lexical corpora (principal authors only):

French-English: Scott Carpenter; Spanish-English; Leland Guyer, Gleb Beliakov; French-English Medical data: Masson, S.A.; German-English: Chris Carter-Smith, Friederike von Schwerin-High; French-Spanish; Daniel Zamorano; French-German: Chris Carter-Smith, Ultralingua; Norwegian-English: Kunnskapsforlaget; Italian-English: Dario de Judicibus; Portuguese-English: Marcelo Todaro, Luciana Ginezi; German-Spanish: Jan-Mark Kunberger, Yvonne Ganswig; Latin-English: with thanks to Jason Davies; French monolingual: Jean-Pierre BrulÈ, Roland Laniel, Scott Carpenter; Roland Laniel, English Dictionary & Thesaurus: Scott Carpenter, WordNet 1.6 (heavily edited) WordNet 1.6 Copyright © 1997 by Princeton University (WordNet required notice: All rights reserved. This software and database is provided "as is" and Princeton University makes no representations or warrangties, express or implied. By way of example, but not limitation, Princeton University makes no representations or warranties of mechantability or fitness for any particular purpose or that the use of the licensed software, database or documentation will not infringe any third party patents, copyrights, trademarks or other rights.), pronunciation guide inspired in part by The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, Copyright 1998 by Carnegie Mellon University.