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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
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
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
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