Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

The Académie française is France's official authority on the usages, vocabulary, and grammar of the French language, although its recommendations carry no legal power.

It has published thirteen editions of the dictionary, of which three were preliminary, eight were complete, and two were supplements for specialised words.

As the work goes on, additional parts of the Dictionnaire are published in the Documents administratifs of the Journal Officiel, and posted online.

In part because the current edition dates from 1935, other dictionaries (such as those published by Larousse and Le Robert) are more commonly used as everyday reference sources than that of the Académie.

The ninth edition was presented by the Académie Française to French president Emmanuel Macron on 14 November 2024.