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The Free Dictionary
Who runs The Free Dictionary, 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
- Collins English Dictionary
Measured from The Free Dictionary’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Free Dictionary01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Free Dictionary
The Free Dictionary thefreedictionary.com
The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries
Wikidata: free online dictionary and encyclopedia.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What The Free Dictionary 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
4 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 3 tools
Advertising and retargeting
Lets ad networks recognise visitors on other sites and show them ads.
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Free Dictionary
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Free Dictionary, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 Collins English Dictionary collinsdictionary.com
printed and online English dictionary
Very close - 02
online English dictionary hosted on merriam-webster.com
Very close - 03
Meanings & Definitions of English Words | 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!
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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.
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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.
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Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
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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 - 08
Urban Dictionary, November 6: Yap Trap
A seemingly endless debate with a idiot
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online dictionary
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free online platform for language lovers and an online community
Very close - 11
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 - 12 dict.cc No trackers
dict.cc | German-English dictionary
dict.cc German-English dictionary - English-German translations.
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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.
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online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close - 15 Linguee linguee.com
web service that provides a searchable database of translations for a number of language pairs
Very close - 16 Infoplease infoplease.com
reference website
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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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.
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website focused on finance and investing
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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
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Free Dictionary’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Free Dictionary 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 The Free Dictionary 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 · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Free Dictionary’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
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/analytics.js
- Advertising
- Google AdSense page source: pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a56316618ae66dde-HAM
- Video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:108.181.102.70 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.prot…
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 mx ip4:108.181.102.70 include:_spf.google.com include:spf.prot…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS shaz.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=o-_oSSBxEdbRRUlAfnrMl8Wsi2G-T2jZu4FiggEbJf4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on thefreedictionary.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thefreedictionary.com 6/20
- Google Analytics 6/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- PHP · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- Prebid.js · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thefreedictionary.com 3/20
- Adobe · not on thefreedictionary.com 3/20
- Amazon Publisher Services · not on thefreedictionary.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on thefreedictionary.com 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on thefreedictionary.com 3/20