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A dictionary that shows you how a word is said, not only what it means. Every one of the 147,478 entries arrives with its syllables split and its stressed syllable marked, next to the definition.
good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)
Each tile carries the number of entries filed under that letter — 15,854 under S against 196 under X. It is the shape of English, counted rather than asserted.
Slices by subject, by shape, by sound and for learning. Every one states the rule it was built from, so you can tell what qualified a word before you trust the list.
Not a summary page for the popular words and a stub for the rest. The same record is rendered for every entry in the corpus, and where a field is missing the page says why.
Every entry splits into its syllables with the stressed one inked and raised. 83,117 single words carry a split. No other dictionary renders stress as something you can see rather than decode.
35,490 entries carry a phonetic transcription from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, alongside a respelling anyone can read aloud. Where there is no transcription the page says so rather than guessing.
AltF Lexicon is a free English dictionary of 147,478 entries and 207,235 senses, built from Princeton’s WordNet and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Every entry shows its syllable split with the stress marked, its pronunciation, and all of its meanings rather than the first one.
Lexical data from Princeton University WordNet 3.x. Pronunciation from CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Word frequencies from the OpenSubtitles-derived FrequencyWords lists, CC BY-SA 4.0. Full sources, licences and required notices.
Most dictionaries mark stress with an apostrophe buried inside a phonetic string you have to already know how to read. Here the word is broken into its syllables and the one you lean on is set in capitals and lifted a fraction — ser · en · dip · i · ty. You can see where the beat falls before you read a word of the definition.
Below that, the same page gives you the IPA for anyone who reads it, a plain-English respelling for everyone who does not, all of the recorded senses, and the synonyms, antonyms and rhymes that go with each one.
# holds the 329 entries that begin with a digit or a symbol.
207,235 senses across the corpus, grouped by part of speech and left in WordNet's own order. The meaning you were looking for is rarely sense one.
Synonyms, antonyms, broader terms and narrower terms are listed per sense rather than pooled, because a word with six meanings almost never has one substitute that works for all of them.
A five-band meter measured against a corpus of everyday English, not an editor's impression. 64,164 entries have a measured frequency behind their band.
22,528 rhyme groups, matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward — the definition of a rhyme a reader already has in their head.