dictionary.com
dictionary.com
Who runs dictionary.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online dictionary alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Merriam-Webster online dictionary
Measured from dictionary.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit dictionary.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs dictionary.com
dictionary.com
The world's leading online dictionary: English definitions, synonyms, word origins, example sentences, word games, and more. A trusted authority for 25+ years!
Wikidata: Online English-English dictionary
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What dictionary.com tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
9 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 5 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to dictionary.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to dictionary.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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online English dictionary hosted on merriam-webster.com
Very close - 02 Collins English Dictionary collinsdictionary.com
printed and online English dictionary
Very close - 03
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries
Very close - 04
Oxford Learner's Dictionaries | Find definitions, translations, and grammar explanations at Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
The largest and most trusted free online dictionary for learners of British and American English with definitions, pictures, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms, word origins, audio pronunciation, and more. Look up the meanings of words, abbreviations, phrases, and idioms in our free English Dictionary.
Very close - 05
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close - 06
Synonyms and Antonyms of Words | Thesaurus.com
Thesaurus.com is the world's largest and most trusted online thesaurus for 25+ years. Join millions of people and grow your mastery of the English language.
Very close - 07
Urban Dictionary, November 6: Yap Trap
A seemingly endless debate with a idiot
Very close - 08
Glosbe Dictionary - All Languages of the World in One Place
Glosbe dictionary - one place, all languages! Translations, example sentences, pronunciation recordings and grammar references. Check it out!
Very close - 09
Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
Very close - 10
free online platform for language lovers and an online community
Very close - 11
online dictionary
Very close - 12 dict.cc No trackers
dict.cc | German-English dictionary
dict.cc German-English dictionary - English-German translations.
Very close - 13
SpanishDictionary.com | English to Spanish Translation, Dictionary, Translator
The world's most popular Spanish translation website. Over 1 million words and phrases. Free. Easy. Accurate.
Very close - 14 Linguee linguee.com
web service that provides a searchable database of translations for a number of language pairs
Very close - 15 Infoplease infoplease.com
reference website
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online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close - 17
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Very close - 18
A-Z Quotes | Quotes for All Occasions
Discover inspirational quotes, collect and share famous and rare quotes. Create beautiful and unique picture quotes in one click. Sayings from famous authors, movies and people.
Very close - 19
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close - 20 BrainyQuote brainyquote.com
online quotations database
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles dictionary.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones dictionary.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what dictionary.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 19 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to dictionary.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Advertising
- Amazon Publisher Services page source: c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Google Ad Manager page source: securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Prebid.js page source: prebid-min.js
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=3a0b28362d3a4116b4218c8ec36a71a2
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630f3d2b895c73-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms68697777
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gail.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=bb5660f072bd1443b1c089706ebb2e9dcf8db7343…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=ghP-ikbtzFUfEulaIubBman0WWpHTrFl2Y03SCLI8S4
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=0oZoDzrB/ItUqdLnhyLp0e5aJW/JaRX1acbofl7…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=df9eb68e-8f31-4a70-a89a-efbdaa16f096
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=Dglp1g8zU22QHe5Cw223GFcsf-WAKLd4G6BuYPf179A
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=k6l24sw20l3wqqhhdj5pmmkmgv7c5s
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 11/20
- Google Workspace · not on dictionary.com 10/20
- Google Analytics · not on dictionary.com 7/20
- Google Ad Manager 5/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on dictionary.com 3/20
- Google Tag Manager 3/20
- PHP 3/20
- Prebid.js 3/20
- Amazon Publisher Services 2/20
- Apple Business 2/20
- reCAPTCHA 2/20
- WordPress 2/20