A quick, easy to use, and comprehensive international English dictionary and thesaurus with 70 000 professionally recorded British and international audio pronunciations. Fast searching, detailed definitions, synonyms, derived words, examples, and a great user interface let you easily navigate between words as you discover and explore their meanings.
The WordWeb dictionary database includes:
- 285,000 distinct words, phrases and derived forms
- 225,000 word sense definitions
- 70,000 usage examples
- 70,000 audio pronunciations
- 85,000 text pronunciations
- Synonyms and similar words
The intelligent word entry suggests possible correct spellings as you type, as well as listing words that sound the same or are often confused. In addition there's a fast pattern-matching word search feature, great for crosswords and other puzzles, or finding that word or phrase you've forgotten.
Search features include:
- Alphabetical listing
- Spelling suggestions
- Sounds-like and often-confused
- Fast pattern-matching search (*, ?, vowel and consonant)
- Filter search results by noun, verb, adjective, adverbs
- Customize search options (case, derived forms, etc)
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Generally I think this is a good app, and I can see it coming in very handy during play rehearsals when there is disagreement about a word's pronunciation. What is slightly disappointing is that while clear dialectical differences between UK and US English are marked (eg LABratory or laBORatri) common accent differences are sometimes ignored - US English tends to be far more rhotic than UK English, and have darker dark Ls, but these are sometimes ignored and you'll often hear a clearly American voice giving what is supposed to be a UK pronunciation (and vice versa), albeit only subtly different. I accept though that for a mobile app (and one that's already pretty large) some compromises had to be made. The accent issue is slightly disappointing - you couldn't use this app to study a different accent, and it maybe hard to convince someone that yes, that really IS the correct UK pronunciation when the spoken example is in a US accent - but overall, for the price, this is a remarkable thing to be able to carry around in your pocket.
Perfect for me.
Therighttospeakout
I needed a simple to use app to pronounce difficult words. Found it with this, absolutely perfect. Very quick word search on my I phone and many English accent pronunciations rather than American accent pronunciations.
No Spelling, same as the dictionary!!
freesoulgk
I don’t understand why is not working, but I bought the app in order to add the audio version and hear the words how they spell it right. Is not functioning and is very disappointing. When first try to use it I thought maybe you are working on it. Is been now 3 weeks and nothing has changed. I would like a refund please.
Great app
TupacAmaruShakur
This is a great app. A good contender in a crowded AppStore
New words and definitions and bug fixes.
Version 8.5
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Information
Provider
Antony Lewis
Size
256.1 MB
Category
Reference
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
