French is number nine for native speakers, number four overall.

If you mean alphabetical, well, there are about six thousand languages at this point, plus many of those go by alternate names. If by native speakers, you can check out Wikipedia with "List of languages by number of native speakers."

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Kukisvoomchor, author "The Twelve Months of the Year in 850 Languages and Dialects"

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French is ranked 18th on the list of most widely spoken languages by native speakers with 74 million speakers, but second on the list by native countries with 34.