WordReference.com

WordReference is an online translation dictionary for, among others, the language pairs English-French, English-Italian, English-Spanish, French-Spanish, Spanish-Portuguese and English-Portuguese.

WordReference.com
Type of site
Online Thesaurus
Available inEnglish, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian
OwnerMichael Kellogg
Created byMichael Kellogg
Revenuefrom AdSense
URLWordReference.com
Alexa rank 328 (June 2019)[1]
RegistrationNo
Launched1999
Current statusActive

WordReference also has Oxford Unabridged and Concise dictionaries available for a subscription. These dictionaries contain more translations than the free ones. The price is currently 30EUR (45USD) per year.[2]

According to Alexa.com,[3] the website is one of the 420 most visited websites worldwide.

As of June 2008, more language pairs have been created: English-German, English-Russian, English-Polish, English-Romanian, English-Czech, English-Greek, English-Turkish, English-Chinese, English-Japanese, English-Korean, English-Arabic. Presently the newer additions are still works-in-progress.

Primary romance languages and English:
  English
  Spanish
  French
  Portuguese
  Italian
  Romanian

WordReference Forums
WordReference Forums
Type of site
Internet forum
OwnerMichael Kellogg
Created byMichael Kellogg
Revenuefrom AdSense
URLforum.wordreference.com
RegistrationYes
Launched2004

The website features publicly accessible forums allowing registered users to ask questions about vocabulary and grammar.

According to Alexa.com, the site is one of the 420 most visited websites in the world. According to West Vancouver Memorial Library, "WordReference has long been the Holy Grail of free online language dictionaries."

Many users severely criticize the rules imposed on forums by the creator and administrator of WordReference, Michael Kellog. These rules do not give the possibility to delete an account from the site, claiming that: "Most people who ask that their questions be deleted do so because they cheated on their homework and they do not want to be taken" (point number 5 of these rules).

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References
  1. "Wordreference.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Amazon company. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  2. "WordReference Subscription Dictionaries". 2009. Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
  3. "wordreference.com - Site Information from Alexa". Alexa Internet, Inc. Amazon company. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
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