Dictionary.com: English Words
authentic ratingA dictionary that was the gold standard for years lost its core value after a change of ownership: saved word collections were deleted without warning, definition navigation is broken, and search returns wrong entries.
14real score
4.78store star
327,851ratings
About the rating
storeAvg 4.61, textAvg 3.52. Large gap driven by the post-acquisition degradation. Long-term users are the most critical and describe specific feature losses. New users are more neutral. Organic picture of a product damaged by ownership change.
Strengths
What users love
- The thesaurus and related definitions in one place used to let you move from word to word through chains of meaning
- Which made it an indispensable deep vocabulary tool for years.
Weak spots
What users hate
- Personal word collections that users built over years were deleted without notice. Definition navigation is broken. Search sometimes leads to the wrong entry. Core features that defined the product no longer work.
Who it is for
Formerly for serious English vocabulary study and writing. Currently the product's reliability is too low to recommend.
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