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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
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Closest alternative
Collins English Dictionary

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01 · 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

Fewer trackers than The Free DictionaryNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree plan

None of the 60 sites closest to The Free Dictionary 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 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 and search numbers · 8 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,221
Vector
384-d
Query
62 ms

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