Saturday, November 9, 2024

Open-source Free English Dictionary


1- List Of English Words (479k Words)

This repo offers a text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion. The data comes in JSON format, and in text format. It also offers an example as in Python script.

GitHub - dwyl/english-words: :memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion
:memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion - GitHub - dwyl/english-words: :memo: A text file containing 479k…

2- Open-Source English Dictionary (176,023 definitions)

An open source English language dictionary with 176,023 definitions.

This is based on the Source Forge Project: MySQL English Dictionary , which in turn in based on the The Online Plain Text English Dictionary (OPTED) dictionary.

OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg e-text of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.




3- List of the Most Common English Words

The Unix dictionary contains far too many ridiculous words that even Google has trouble explaining, such as zuurveldt, cholecystenterorrhaphy and nonly:

$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
235886
GitHub - dolph/dictionary: A list of the most popular English words.
A list of the most popular English words. Contribute to dolph/dictionary development by creating an account on GitHub.

4- wiktionary-dict



This project collects bilingual Wiktionary dictionaries in DSL-format, based on the work of Wiktionary User:Matthias_Buchmeier.

The scripts used to convert these dictionaries can be found here, and the original source files and other information can be found on the project homepage on Wiktionary.

GitHub - open-dsl-dict/wiktionary-dict: Offline bilingual dictionaries made using data from Wiktionary
Offline bilingual dictionaries made using data from Wiktionary - GitHub - open-dsl-dict/wiktionary-dict: Offline bilingual dictionaries made using data from Wiktionary

5- ipa-dict - Monolingual word lists with pronunciation information in IPA

This project aims to provide a series of dictionaries consisting of wordlists with accompanying phonemic pronunciation information in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcription for as many words as possible in as many languages / dialects / variants as possible.

Supported formats include: Raw data, JSON, CSV, XML and several other formats.

The included languages are: Arabic, German, Esperanto, Finish, Japanese, Khmer, Korea, Dutch, French, Persian, Romanian, Swedish, and many more.

GitHub - open-dict-data/ipa-dict: Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA
Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA - GitHub - open-dict-data/ipa-dict: Monolingual wordlists with pronunciation information in IPA

6- Syng: Chinese To English




Syng is a free, cross-platform, open-source, Chinese-To-English and English-To-Chinese dictionary. Syng is your study assistant to help you learn Chinese no matter where you are in your journey.

Syng v2 is now in beta. Please be patient as features get ported over from v1. In addition to a new interface, Syng v2 includes numerous under-the-hood enhancements on top of v1 that enable the possibility of more advanced features.

GitHub - sotch-pr35mac/syng: A free, open source, cross-platform, Chinese-To-English dictionary for desktops.
A free, open source, cross-platform, Chinese-To-English dictionary for desktops. - GitHub - sotch-pr35mac/syng: A free, open source, cross-platform, Chinese-To-English dictionary for desktops.

7- Simple Dictionary



An offline English to English dictionary with spell suggestions using the open source dictionary data. It is built on top of Java, and comes with HTML interface.

GitHub - subhashnottath/dictionary: An offline English to English dictionary with spell suggestions using the open source dictionary data
An offline English to English dictionary with spell suggestions using the open source dictionary data - GitHub - subhashnottath/dictionary: An offline English to English dictionary with spell sugge…

8- Saladict (Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox)


Saladict is an all-in-one professional pop-up dictionary and page translator. It supports mixed use of multiple search modes.

Saladict
Saladict is an all-in-one professional pop-up dictionary and page translator which supports multiple search modes, page translations, new word notebook and PDF selection searching.

9- FreeDict

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. FreeDict nowadays provides over 140 dictionaries in about 45 languages and thanks to its members, grows continuously.

FreeDict is avaiable to download for Windows, and GNU/ Linux.

Home — FreeDict

10- Dictionary API

A Free headless Dictionary API for developers.  The API usage has been ramping up rapidly, making it difficult for me to keep the server running due to increased AWS costs.

GitHub - meetDeveloper/freeDictionaryAPI: There was no free Dictionary API on the web when I wanted one for my friend, so I created one.
There was no free Dictionary API on the web when I wanted one for my friend, so I created one. - GitHub - meetDeveloper/freeDictionaryAPI: There was no free Dictionary API on the web when I wanted…

11- English Dictionary (Android)

An open-source free English dictionary for Android, written in Java. It features word search, TextToSpeech option, SQLite database backend, and Search History.

GitHub - ardakazanci/English-Dictionary: English Dictionary Android Mobile App
English Dictionary Android Mobile App. Contribute to ardakazanci/English-Dictionary development by creating an account on GitHub.

12- En Dictionary

A Web App Dictionary For Getting Word's Meaning / Examples / Pronounciation Using cam-dict. It is an open-source free project that is released under the MIT license.

GitHub - hadiazt/En-Dictionary: English To English Word Meaning and etc. Dictionary
English To English Word Meaning and etc. Dictionary - GitHub - hadiazt/En-Dictionary: English To English Word Meaning and etc. Dictionary

13- English Idioms for Italian and Spanish People

A collection of the most common English idioms with their related Italian and Spanish translation.

GitHub - tsumarios/English-Idioms: A collection of the most common English idioms with their related Italian and Spanish translation.
A collection of the most common English idioms with their related Italian and Spanish translation. - GitHub - tsumarios/English-Idioms: A collection of the most common English idioms with their rel…

14- Russian English dictionary

A dynamic web application of English-Russian dictionary with accessibility. Built with React and Skyeng API. I built this project to improve my understanding of React and Redux.

GitHub - domoratskii/english-dictionary: A dynamic web application of English-Russian dictionary with accessibility. Built with React and Skyeng API
A dynamic web application of English-Russian dictionary with accessibility. Built with React and Skyeng API - GitHub - domoratskii/english-dictionary: A dynamic web application of English-Russian d…

15- Mercury (iOS)

Mercury is a free iOS English dictionary.

GitHub - SkullMag/Mercury: Mercury is a free iOS English dictionary
Mercury is a free iOS English dictionary. Contribute to SkullMag/Mercury development by creating an account on GitHub.

16- Dictionary (Vietnamese and Japanese)

This is a responsive single-page-app dictionary using Angular and Bootstrap. Currently, it supports English-Vietnamese dictionary and going to support Japanese-Vietnamese dictionary.

GitHub - hoaftq/Dictionary: A dictionary web app with data automatically collected from other pages
A dictionary web app with data automatically collected from other pages - GitHub - hoaftq/Dictionary: A dictionary web app with data automatically collected from other pages


17- Acron (Qt)

Acorn is a lightweight and responsive English Dictionary application using the cross-platform Qt toolkit for its interface.

GitHub - jayzsh/Acorn: Acorn is a lightweight and responsive English dictionary app using Princeton’s WordNet lexical database and the Qt5 toolkit
Acorn is a lightweight and responsive English dictionary app using Princeton's WordNet lexical database and the Qt5 toolkit - GitHub - jayzsh/Acorn: Acorn is a lightweight and responsive Engli…

18- Web English dictionary app

English dictionary app using HTML, CSS, and JS.

GitHub - Koshyar-r/dictionary-app: English dictionary app using HTML, CSS and JS.
English dictionary app using HTML, CSS and JS. Contribute to Koshyar-r/dictionary-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

19- Open-source Dictionary for Firefox

GitHub - JonasHogman/firefox-dictionary: WebExtension for Firefox that provides Google Dictionary for Chrome-like functionality (except prettier and with more bugs).
WebExtension for Firefox that provides Google Dictionary for Chrome-like functionality (except prettier and with more bugs). - GitHub - JonasHogman/firefox-dictionary: WebExtension for Firefox that…

  • UKACD (UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary), about 250000 words, is good for crossword setting and solving
  • YAWL (Yet Another Word List), about 250000 words, is a copyright-free American list popular among Unix users
  • Moby, about 600000 words, is part of Project Gutenberg
  • ABLE (Alternate British LExicon), 200000 words, is a UK-oriented list designed for word puzzles
  • SOWPODS, about 270000 words, is a standard word list used for Scrabble and other word games all over the world
  • TWL, about 180000 words, is a standard word list used for Scrabble and other word games in the United States and elsewhere
  • PDL, a public domain word list originally called PUBLIC.DICT.LARGE containing about 37000 reasonably common words with a slight academic bias
  • BNC, a word list derived from the British National Corpus containing about 470000 strings, the great majority of which are words
  • Broda, a list of about 390000 words aimed at US puzzlers