Dictionary - WordWeb

WordWeb Software

About this app

The free offline English dictionary and thesaurus with synonyms, related words and great search - and no adverts. Audio pronunciations are available with the separate Audio Edition app.

The comprehensive WordWeb dictionary database includes:

- 285,000 words, phrases and derived forms
- 225,000 word sense definitions
- 70,000 usage examples
- 85,000 text pronunciations
- Synonyms, similar and related words
- N. American, British, Australian and international English

The intelligent word entry suggests possible correct spellings as you type, as well as listing words that sound the same or are often confused.

Additional features include the ability to drill down on any word in a definition, full bookmark support and history.

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

The database includes proper nouns and common abbreviations in addition to English vocabulary (e.g. LOL, Oxford, JPEG, Webster, UNHCR, etc.)

You can quickly look up words from within other apps by selecting the word, then selecting WordWeb from the pop-up menu (requires Android M and higher).

No Internet connection is required to use WordWeb, and it's free. Better than dictionary.com? - judge for yourself!

Ratings and reviews

One of the best dictionary apps around! Yet only 3 stars. I super appreciate the absence of ads. I wish it offered audio pronunciation. But worse than that is the difficulty with conjugations. It's very hard to find the conjugation you want. When you're in the root word only a few conjugations show -- and they aren't labeled. Sometimes it's fine; but there's no consistency. Case in point: if you want to "clue someone in" you will be cluing them in. Or clueing them in. Which is it? Can't tell.

I had this app for well over a year, it worked great as a dictionary app when you were offline. The latest update makes it constantly want to be online so that totally defeats the purpose of having it installed at all since you can just look up words in a browser if you are online. Anyway, they broke it, I uninstalled it.

Your app is excellent–hands down the most comprehensive dictionary app I've found to date. One small note - as a graphic designer & UI developer, I feel the new logo does the app a grave disservice. The old logo was much more effective - conveying the warmth & historical authority of old dictionaries. This new blue colorscheme is all wrong, having no bearing on either analog dictionaries nor conveying a positive emotion. The new icon is generic & banal, whereas the old was welcoming & relevant.

What's new

New words and definitions. Fix for search buttons and tablet input, offline use.