Sites like dictionary.com in 2026: alternatives, privacy and pricing

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.

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01 · 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.
- Google Tag ManagerUS
Third-party embeds

Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
- Google FontsUS
Privacy-friendly analytics

Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
- Cloudflare Web AnalyticsUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to dictionary.com

Fewer trackers than dictionary.com No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to dictionary.com match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 19 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,216
Vector: 384-d
Query: 36 ms

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.