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.
1 of the 60 sites closest to dictionary.com matches.
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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 and search numbers · 19 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,199
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 31 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.
- 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