How many letters does the biggest word in the english dictionary have

How many words/phrases should a German-English/Enlish-German dict…?

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That’s about the size of a pocket dictionary. My own printed, medium sized Langenscheidt’s dictionary has ca. 220,000 entries. (combined)

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