thesaurus.com
Thesaurus.com
Who runs Thesaurus.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online thesaurus 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 Thesaurus.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Thesaurus.com01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Thesaurus.com
Thesaurus.com 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.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Thesaurus.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
8 of the 12 alternatives below have fewer, 2 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 4 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.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Thesaurus.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Thesaurus.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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online English dictionary hosted on merriam-webster.com
Very close - 02 Collins English Dictionary collinsdictionary.com
printed and online English dictionary
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!
Very close - 04
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus - The Free Dictionary
The World's most comprehensive free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia with synonyms, definitions, idioms, abbreviations, and medical, financial, legal specialized dictionaries
Very close - 05
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close - 06
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.
Very close - 07
Urban Dictionary, November 6: Yap Trap
A seemingly endless debate with a idiot
Very close - 08
free online platform for language lovers and an online community
Very close - 09 Infoplease infoplease.com
reference website
Very close - 10
online dictionary
Very close - 11
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.
Very close - 12 dict.cc No trackers
dict.cc | German-English dictionary
dict.cc German-English dictionary - English-German translations.
Very close - 13
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 - 14
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 - 15 Linguee linguee.com
web service that provides a searchable database of translations for a number of language pairs
Very close - 16
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close - 17
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.
Close - 18
AZLyrics - Song Lyrics from A to Z
music online lyrics database
Very close - 19 BrainyQuote brainyquote.com
online quotations database
Close - 20
The Bible - Search & Read the Bible Online with Study Tools | Bible Study Tools
Read and study the Bible online with over 100 translations and languages. Read verses by topic, study Scripture with commentary, and apply the Word of God with articles for Biblical living today.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Thesaurus.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Thesaurus.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 Thesaurus.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, the competitor map and search numbers · 14 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 40 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Thesaurus.com’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
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- 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
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577964d6a0dcaad-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms80338196
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS gabe.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=nj6FwkHbBjzb9-UxdyUXeP7FF2oM9mvfAgeVWsh7_AY
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=DLu1Js46XMS-px52kkEC5A8tn60ic7gGqdLD8TuONtI
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=l603frfyds9zp53cw1j4t8rup7s6xw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Cloudflare 13/20
- Cloudflare DNS 12/20
- Google Workspace · not on thesaurus.com 11/20
- Google Analytics · not on thesaurus.com 8/20
- Google Ad Manager 6/20
- Microsoft 365 4/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on thesaurus.com 4/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thesaurus.com 3/20
- Amazon Publisher Services 3/20
- Google Tag Manager 3/20
- PHP 3/20
- Prebid.js 3/20
- Adobe · not on thesaurus.com 2/20
- Apple Business 2/20