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Merriam-Webster
For students, educators, and language enthusiasts requiring scholarly reliability and professional-grade vocabulary resources.
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For students, educators, and language enthusiasts requiring scholarly reliability and professional-grade vocabulary resources.
Providing authoritative English language reference and vocabulary tools for students, educators, and word enthusiasts.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 2Last updated
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
v5.9.1
3mo ago
Primary focus
Authoritative English language reference and vocabulary tools
Scale
indie
Target audience
Students, educators, and language enthusiasts requiring scholarly reliability and professional-grade vocabulary resources.
Origin
Established in 1828 and currently operating as an Encyclopædia Britannica Company.
Released 4 updates across 2 active apps in the last 6 months, focusing development resources on the flagship dictionary products.
7 apps analysed
Superior learner-specific content (160k usage examples)
Specialized ESL pedagogical features (Noun labeling)
Superior human-voiced audio pronunciations
Human-voiced audio pronunciations
Editor-curated '1000 Words Worth Knowing' list
Distributed across 7 markets, strongest in Americas.
Based on 4 of 7 apps with localized market data — more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
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Positive apps
1
Neutral / mixed
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Negative apps
59/100
Avg sentiment score
A professional-grade tool that offers a massive database and highly granular rhyme types, often used in professional songwriting circles.
Differentiators
Strategic outlook coming soon.
What fed this analysis
Focuses on bite-sized learning for vocabulary, idioms, and phrasal verbs using a notification-based approach.
Differentiators
Coexists on the phones of language enthusiasts, moving from word lookup to active writing correction.
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A popular, lightweight offline dictionary and thesaurus that serves as a fast utility for quick lookups.
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The go-to app for learners to import and memorize the words they look up in learner's dictionaries.
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While a broad brain-training app, its 'Brevity', 'Context', and 'Error Avoidance' games compete directly for the intellectual vocabulary audience.
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