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WordWeb Free v10.40

Ennovy on 1 Aug 2024
  • 41MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 31 Jul 2024
  • Suggested by motormaroon

WordWeb is a one-click English thesaurus and dictionary that can look up words in almost any program. It works off-line, but can also look up words in web references such as the Wikipedia. It includes full dictionary and thesaurus for the various English variants including American, British, Canadian, Australian, Indian and global.

A pro version available with additional features.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Greenware - free if you only take one return flight in any 12 month period
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and launch
  2. Enter a destination folder of your choice
  3. Click on the Advanced options... button, and ensure the Install as portable app check box is selected
  4. The program will automatically launch but in the future, run wweb32.exe

Optionally, delete uninst.exe and launch
Similar/alternative apps: TheSage
What's new? See: https://wordweb.info/users.html
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PAFuser on 2022-11-13 18:42

It appears 10.21 is current Free version, 10.23 is Pro version update.

Ennovy on 2022-11-14 00:40

@PAFuser: Thanks, I changed it back to 10.21 until the new free version is released

Pendrive on 2023-06-27 13:45

It is now at v10.33.

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TheSage v7.60.2814

Ennovy on 11 May 2024
  • 78MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 May 2024
  • Suggested by milentechie

TheSage is an English dictionary and thesaurus that contains over 250,000 words with 2.1 million word relationships. It also features various related word tools such as a concordancer, rhyming dictionary, phonetic, and more. Features include cross-referencing, wildcard and anagram search, multi-session history, etc.

Functional on 64-bit systems.

Note: some options are limited to PRO version subscribers.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Liteware, free for personal use
How to extract: Download the "PORTABLE" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch TheSage.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: WordWeb
What's new? See: https://www.sequencepublishing.com/1/thesage/news/changelog.txt
Latest comments
webfork on 2017-04-14 02:02

@Mixture: This is really something you need to post about in forums.

MoisheP on 2017-07-30 05:25

Check this version for safety!

PapaiMark on 2023-11-06 02:33

It is messy. Hot keys conflicts with windows hks. Couldn't make it speak the words. Accumulate words searched making a mess for our eyes. "Lingoes", for me, is still the best freeware for this.

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Crow Translate v2.11.1

Ennovy on 4 Jan 2024
  • 54MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 4 Jan 2024
  • Suggested by Midas

Crow Translate is a simple and lightweight translator that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing. Functions can be triggered via global shortcut keys. OCR and speech synthesis are also supported.

Note that only the 64-bit version is available.

Category:
Runs on:Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: At least msvcp140.dll and vcruntime140.dll (part of MS Visual C++ Redistributable)
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the 7Zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Create an empty file called settings.ini. Launch crow.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: QTranslate
What's new? See: https://github.com/crow-translate/crow-translate/releases
Latest comments
vmars316 on 2021-10-25 18:11

Hmm...
It is missing a bunch of ".dll"s .

Midas on 2021-10-26 06:00

@vmars: as noted in the official forum topic (see https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=102023#p102023), Crow Translate requires the latest MSVC runtimes to work.

dmocha on 2022-05-12 02:42

There were no changes for a long time, and three more appeared in a short time. There is already version 2.9.5

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QTranslate v6.10.0

lintalist on 4 Jun 2024
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 9 Feb 2022
  • Suggested by I am Baas

QTranslate is a front-end for various translation websites. Open the main window to enter or paste text or simply select text and press a hotkey for a popup translation window. The program also has the ability to search in offline XDXF dictionaries, speech recognition, text to speech synthesis, image text recognition, spell checking, virtual keyboard, search the web and more.

Supported translation services are Google Translate, Bing Translator, Promt, Babylon, Yandex.Translate, youdao, Baidu, Naver and DeepL; dictionaries: ABBYY Lingvo Live, Babylon Dictionary, Google, ImTranslator, Multitran, Oxford Learner Dictionary, Reverso, Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia and WordReference.

Although the hotkeys can be modified, the following are available by default:

  • Show the translation window: CTRL+Q (press CTRL twice for the main window)
  • Speak text: Ctrl+E
  • Perform a web search: Ctrl+W

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Internet Connection
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete License.rtf, and unnecessary locales and themes
  3. Launch QTranslate.exe
Similar/alternative apps: Crow Translate
What's new? See: https://quest-app.appspot.com/download
Latest comments
david.lynch on 2024-05-31 10:26

@Ennovy: by services I meant the translation ones inside the app.

Ennovy on 2024-05-31 11:23

Oké, thanks david!

alexkul66 on 2024-06-09 12:54

People continued development with the addition of new services
https://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=50987&start=740#3

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Longman English Dictionary Browser v2.0.5

lwc on 3 Nov 2023
  • 3MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 13 Oct 2016
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Longman English Dictionary Browser displays search results from Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online for user’s selected keywords with the key combination Ctrl+Shift+D.

Note that while the program will run slow initially, the program gradually builds up a cache of various different parts of speech into one. Once this is finished, the program should have very little delay.

Written in AutoHotKey.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: Internet connection
Stealth: ? No
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract
  2. Move the content of {app} to a folder of your choice
  3. Launch LongmanEnglishDictionaryBrowser,1.exe (32-bit) or LongmanEnglishDictionaryBrowser,2.exe (64-bit), depending on whether you are running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows
What's new? Improved:
  • The handling of not-found words.
Fixed issues:
  • That the program did not launch any longer.
  • That Google TTS was blocked.
  • Of GUI layout due to custom DPI configurations.
  • That any word has been no longer searchable.
Latest comments
Midas on 2012-11-19 11:06

Download link broken...

dot on 2017-08-05 07:57

I strongly suppose that, every time you enter a search, this program will connect not only to the Longman database but will also establish connections either to Google or Amazon (the two biggest tracking firms this poor, abused globe has ever seen). The website with the pure online version doesn't even load if I block Amazon. If someone else tests it and finds out that it doesn't connect either to Google or Amazon, I will download it. :-)

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LingoPad v2.6

Checker on 31 Mar 2015
  • 20MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 28 Jul 2008
  • Suggested by Andrew Lee

LingoPad is an offline dictionary program. It loads a German-English dictionary by default, but other dictionaries (German-Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Norwegian) can be downloaded as well. You can also import your own wordlists and use them in parallel with the existing dictionaries. For each dictionary, a user dictionary can be defined to include additional wordlists.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder. The file readonly.txt makes the program writes settings to options.ini in the application folder, but not all settings are saved.
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the installer and extract using Universal Extractor to a folder of your choice
  2. The application files are in the {app} folder
  3. You should delete readme,1.txt and rename readme,2.txt to readme.txt
  4. You should also delete unicows.pdb to save space
  5. Launch LingoPad.exe
By default, the user interface is German. You can change that by selecting Programm, Sprache, English.
What's new?
  • Changes for Windows Vista.
  • Customized setup (select data directory on setup).
  • Change font size with Ctrl++ / Ctrl+- / Alt++ / Alt+-.
  • Specify order of dictionaries.
  • ShortCuts for dictionaries.
  • Faster import of own dictionaries.
  • Faster loading of user dictionaries.
  • Automatic translation on clipboard changes.
  • Bugfixes.
Latest comments
mark on 2008-11-05 11:18

sorry for the obvious question, but how do i choose read only mode? i did not see that option. a few more details would be helpful please.
thanks
:-)

Beez on 2008-11-06 01:46

Thanks guest, works great!

@mark: read the installation carefully, you'll see the option/check box.

mark on 2008-11-06 01:57

@Beez: thanks, got it now!

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Lingoes v2.9.2

Checker on 18 Aug 2014
  • 23MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by infimum

Lingoes is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software. It offers lookup dictionaries, full text translation, capture word on screen, translate selected text and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages including Chinese, Spanish, English, Arabic, Portuguese, and more.

The application includes the Concise English Dictionary and additional dictionaries are available for download.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Dependencies: IE6 or later
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Free for personal use
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Lingoes.exe.
Similar/alternative apps: QTranslate
Latest comments
smaragdus on 2014-08-17 21:27

The latest version of Lingoes is 2.9.2- http://www.lingoes.net/en/translator/download.htm
However I would like to ask- is there a way to block the annoying ads? I would rather stop using Lingoes than tolerating the obtrusive ads Lingoes spews out at every search.

Checker on 2014-08-18 16:34

@ smaragdus: Thanks ... and updated ;)

kanu on 2024-02-14 14:04

Is there any way to download dictionaries currently? All of them give 403-404 errors.

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Yadabyte Dictionary v1.0.0.1

billon on 20 Aug 2016
  • 6MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Jul 2006
  • Suggested by Yucca

Yadabyte Dictionary provides a small and fast American English dictionary that contains more than 145,000 definitions and synonyms. It uses state-of-the-art compression to squeeze nearly 24MB worth of information into a mere 5MB.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: None
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch YadabyteDictionary.exe.
Latest comments
Shamrock on 2006-06-26 01:05

This is brilliant. Love it.

Technomancer on 2008-07-15 11:19

This program is really good and if you like it you'll love 'TheSage Dictionary'.

bb2u2 on 2008-10-16 19:35

It would be nice to have a G rated version so that I could use it in the classroom. Cool tool though, thank you

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QuickDic v7.3 db 48

webfork on 14 Jul 2016
  • 5MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by outskirter

QuickDic is a complete, offline German-English (and visa versa) dictionary. The program can automatically recognize the language in search, can pop up from a minimized state in response to clipboard entries (i.e. from a copy operation in a text editor, etc.), and contains some language lessons, games, and a included help file.

Category:
Runs on:Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes. To have German umlauts and phonetic transcriptions displayed correctly you need a Unicode-enabled font.
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch QuickDic.exe.

McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme / VersePerfect 2.0

webfork on 20 Jan 2020

McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme / VersePerfect allows you to enter any word to see rhymes, near-rhymes, similar terms, and more. The program even features a visually interesting "hyperbolic thesaurus" (visible in the screenshot).

Note: Main website links to download.com, which we recommend avoiding. Download link switched to Softpedia.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract:
  1. Download the .exe installer (inside of a .zip archive) and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Delete install_script.iss and the folder embedded
  3. The program is in the folder “{app}”
  4. Launch VersePerfect.exe
Latest comments
Harry on 2010-05-26 01:32

It wants to contact 174.143.153.109 and I can't find a way to turn this off.

NickR on 2011-08-19 17:06

Website Link Broken ?
Perhaps there isnt one anymore

Onesimus Prime on 2011-09-19 06:14

Changing the download link to Softpedia, for now...

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