Alternatives and competitors
Sites like dictionary.com
The 20 closest online dictionary alternatives to dictionary.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 19 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to dictionary.com? The closest matches are Merriam-Webster online dictionary, The Free Dictionary and Urban Dictionary. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About dictionary.com
dictionary.com
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!
Wikidata: Online English-English dictionary
Summary by Claude
Free online English dictionary with word definitions, pronunciations, word origins, example sentences, Word of the Day, Word of the Year and word games, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary.
- Who it’s for
- English speakers, students, writers
- Business model
- Advertising and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to dictionary.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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to dictionary.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to dictionary.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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online English dictionary hosted on merriam-webster.com
Very close cos 0.947 - 02
Urban Dictionary, November 6: Yap Trap
A seemingly endless debate with a idiot
Very close cos 0.937 - 03
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close cos 0.934 - 04
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!
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Ad Manager
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics
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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.
Very close cos 0.908 - 06
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close cos 0.904 - 07
online translation and linguistic tools
Very close cos 0.901 - 08
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Very close cos 0.900 - 09
📙 Emojipedia — 😃 Home of Emoji Meanings 💁👌🎍😍
online emoji encyclopedia
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Simple Page
website focused on finance and investing
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Bored Panda - The Only Magazine For Pandas
Bored Panda is a leading art, pop culture and lifestyle magazine that is viewed nearly 100 million times every month.
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Australian-Curaçaoan online casino
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BibleGateway.com: A searchable online Bible in over 150 versions and 50 languages.
Read, hear, and study Scripture at the world's most-visited Christian website. Grow your faith with devotionals, Bible reading plans, and mobile apps.
Close cos 0.885 - 15
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
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Welcome to Open Library | Open Library
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.
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GIPHY - Be Animated
GIPHY is the platform that animates your world. Find the GIFs, Clips, and Stickers that make your conversations more positive, more expressive, and more you.
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MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
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Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Close cos 0.883
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to dictionary.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones dictionary.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What dictionary.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what dictionary.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on dictionary.com 10/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on dictionary.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on dictionary.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 6/20
- Google Ad Manager 3/20
- Zendesk · not on dictionary.com 3/20
- nginx · not on dictionary.com 3/20
- SendGrid · not on dictionary.com 2/20
- Fastmail · not on dictionary.com 2/20
- GlobalSign · not on dictionary.com 2/20
- Tailwind CSS · not on dictionary.com 2/20
- Brevo · not on dictionary.com 2/20