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English dictionary

Definitions, pronunciation with audio, examples, forms and translations — one page per word, with the neighbouring entries laid out as they would sit on the page of a book.

20,305 words

Accents are optional — typing “cafe” finds “café”.

Common words

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What you get on a word page

Every entry is laid out the same way, so you always know where to look.

The neighbouring words

An open book showing the three entries before and the three after, in the real alphabetical order of the language — the one thing a paper dictionary does better, and which most online ones lose.

Forms and etymology

Plurals and conjugated forms redirect to their base word, so one page holds everything. A word that is also something in its own right keeps its own page, with the standalone sense first.

Figures we work out ourselves

Letter count, syllables, Scrabble score and corpus rank. None of it is copied from anywhere — it is worked out from the word itself, and a syllable count is marked as an estimate whenever the source has not written the break itself.

Questions

Where do the definitions come from?
From the English Wiktionary, extracted with wiktextract and republished under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each language comes from its own edition — English words from the English Wiktionary, not from another edition's English section, whose definitions would be written in that other language. Each page links back to its source entry.
Do I have to type the accents?
No. Searching “cafe” finds “café”, and so does a typo: “cafe” with two letters swapped still gets you there. Accents are ignored when looking a word up, but kept when filing it: an accented word is shelved under its base letter, among its unaccented neighbours, exactly where a paper dictionary would put it.
Why does a plural redirect to its singular?
Because “houses” has nothing to say that “house” does not say better. But the rule only applies when a word is nothing but an inflected form: a word that is also something in its own right keeps its own page, with the standalone sense first.