Alternatives and competitors
Sites like The Free Dictionary
The 20 closest online dictionary alternatives to The Free Dictionary, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to The Free Dictionary? The closest matches are Merriam-Webster online dictionary, Wiktionary and dictionary.com. 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 The Free Dictionary
The Free Dictionary thefreedictionary.com
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
Wikidata: free online dictionary and encyclopedia.
Summary by Claude
Free online reference site aggregating an English dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, idioms, acronyms, and specialized medical, legal and financial dictionaries, plus dictionaries in many other languages.
- Who it’s for
- General public, students, writers
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
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). 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 The Free Dictionary
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Free Dictionary, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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online English dictionary hosted on merriam-webster.com
Very close cos 0.955 - 02
Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
Very close cos 0.945 - 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 cos 0.942 - 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
- Google Analytics
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Ad Manager
Very close cos 0.931 - 05
online dictionary
Very close cos 0.929 - 06
Urban Dictionary, November 6: Yap Trap
A seemingly endless debate with a idiot
Very close cos 0.926 - 07
online translation and linguistic tools
Very close cos 0.916 - 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 0.914 - 09
Simple Page
website focused on finance and investing
Very close cos 0.913 - 10
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 0.911 - 11
online edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Very close cos 0.908 - 12
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close cos 0.901 - 13 Very close cos 0.898
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online provider of legal information
Very close cos 0.896 - 15
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.
Very close cos 0.896 - 16 Very close cos 0.896
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
Close cos 0.894 - 18
Everyday Health: Trusted Medical Information, Expert Health Advice, News, Tools, and Resources
Everyday Health inspires and empowers people to live their healthiest lives, every day, through trusted, medically reviewed information and expert health advice from the nation's leading healthcare providers and patient advocates. Learn more about health
Very close cos 0.897 - 19
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.895 - 20
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
Close cos 0.894
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to thefreedictionary.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones The Free Dictionary uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What The Free Dictionary is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what The Free Dictionary adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on thefreedictionary.com 11/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on thefreedictionary.com 6/20
- Microsoft 365 6/20
- Atlassian · not on thefreedictionary.com 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on thefreedictionary.com 5/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- DocuSign · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- OneTrust · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- Prebid.js · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20
- Zendesk · not on thefreedictionary.com 4/20