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Free Dictionaries, Free Knowledge

The FreeDict project strives to be the most comprehensive source of truly free bilingual dictionaries. They are not just free of charge, but they give you the right to study, change and modify them, as long as you guarantee others these freedoms, too. Founded in 2000, FreeDict nowadays provides over 140 dictionaries in about 45 languages and thanks to its members, grows continuously. Learn how to become a part of FreeDict.

Use Wherever You Want

FreeDict dictionaries offer you the greatest deal of flexibility possible: you can use them both on your computer or on your mobile phone and all the lookups are offline. This means that you can travel abroad without the fear that your provider will make you pay a lot just for a few dictionary lookups. You will even be independent from a network connection.

Use For Any Purpose

Our data is useful for a wide range of applications which is made possible through the use of the generic TEI XML format. This allows us to export our data into any format and for any purpose, be it an electronic/paper dictionary or a spell checker.

What's Happening

2024-11-08

A few days ago, we have released version 0.7 of the FreeDict tools, a set of scripts and style sheets to to build/convert and distribute our dictionaries. Along with bug fixes, we now officially support StarDict again, with the help of PyGlossary.

2024-10-31

Thanks to the work of multiple members, we now support StarDict as output format. Thanks to Saeed Rasooli for maintaining the conversion and providing the integration into the FreeDict tooling, Karl Bartel for updating the Website and Sebastian Humenda for helping out on various build system and API-related issues.

If you can, please help us update the Website translations!

2024-10-12

Thanks to Karl Bartel from the WikDict project, we were able to import 162 new WikDict dictionaries, available in all of our formats.

2024-10-11

English-Polish is one of our more complex dictionary, regarding the TEI XML markup. This has led to many tools giving up on its include references. Now all the glitches have been fixed and 0.2.1 is available in all supported formats and with phonetics.