English-German Dictionary

2023-01-19: New feature for contributors (Beta): Find missing entries from corresponding language pair!

Basically it's a list of entries from DE-XX not yet in EN-XX (or the other way round) that can be used to create new translation pairs using auto-matched suggestions via DE-EN. Many new dictionary entries with correct formatting/tagging can be added just by picking correct auto-created pairs.

This feature may still contain some useless entries or near duplicates for technical reasons, I hope to further improve that later. But in the meantime it's already really useful if you just pick the easy cases. Please still check the auto-generated suggestions for near duplicates and possible errors and pick only those with 100% matching meanings.

To try it, click "Missing" in the menu bar in the "Contribute!" section of any language pair except German-English.

Thanks to dict.cc contributor Puchenau for suggesting this (and sorry for changing it a little for technical reasons)!

2022-11-16: EN/FR - 100k!
The first one of the English dictionaries reaches 100,000 entries! Congratulations to the French-English team!

2022-11-06: 20 years of dict.cc! (and a new feature ...)
20 years - wow, that's a long time and reason enough to be a little proud. :-) Proud of 24,714,000,000 (almost 25 billion) answered translation lookups to date, 2 million currently active dict.cc app installations and above all, proud of the loyal community of contributors who make all this possible!

Even after 20 years, dict.cc is still a one-man business, and also my personal life project. I started dict.cc when I was 24, and now I'm 44 somehow. ;-) Almost half my life already, I wonder where the time went! And this project is not just a job, it's also meant to be my contribution to society, helping with easier access to education and helping to break down barriers between people who don't speak the same language.

When dict.cc started in 2002, there was no Facebook (2004), Twitter (2006) or TikTok (2016), and even Wikipedia (2001) was still in its infancy. The devices we now call smartphones didn't even exist back then. By Internet standards, the website is as old as Methuselah and unfortunately you can see that in the design, which is not sufficiently optimized for smartphones. That's why I'm currently working on expanding the new "responsive" website, which is currently mainly used as a mobile website, to also integrate the content-creating areas (Contribute/Forum) in order to eventually replace the old website. But that's going to take a while, because unfortunately, due to maintenance and support tasks, I only have limited time for programming.

Here are the current numbers for the stats:
1,249,364 translations in German-English, 2,058,377 in the other language pairs
1,407,386 audio recordings, 1,359,859 inflections and 387,746 illustrations
292,259 registered users, of which 37,190 are contributors

New Feature: Shuffle!
In IT projects you often see small special features for anniversaries, like little games or animations. I also came up with a playful little extra feature, inspired by funny posts you often see on social media. I'm unlocking the feature today, but it will also remain available in the long term. It's an anagram search engine. You can enter words, short phrases or even names and it shows you "hidden meanings" that appear when you shuffle the letters. The results can be shared as images on social media. This will also serve as a little bit of advertising for dict.cc while providing a playful approach to language. It would be nice if you could try this feature and send me your discoveries using the "suggest for gallery" feature.
Try it or see examples!

Finally, I would like to once again express my heartfelt thanks to all the contributors who helped dict.cc grow and thrive so wonderfully. Especially to those who have been doing so for years, with great commitment - regardless of whether it's vocabulary maintenance, voice recordings or illustrations. You are the backbone of dict.cc and I thank you for that!

Here's to the next 20 years!
Cheers, Paul

2022-09-09: Readers of the "Apps" magazine made dict.cc their number 1 app for language learning in Germany!

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