WordWeb Audio Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
4.4 (
8864 ratings )
Reference
Education
Developer:
Antony Lewis
3.99 USD
Current version:
5.6, last update: 9 months ago
First release : 11 Apr 2009
App size: 234.29 Mb
A comprehensive English dictionary and thesaurus with 70,000 professionally recorded audio pronunciations.
The WordWeb dictionary database includes:
- 300,000 words, phrases and derived forms
- 225,000 word sense definitions
- 70,000 usage examples
- 70,000 audio pronunciations
- 85,000 text pronunciations
- Synonyms and similar words
- British, US and Australian words, pronunciations and spellings
The intelligent word entry suggests possible correct spellings as you type, as well as listing words that sound the same or are often confused. In addition theres a fast pattern-matching word search feature, great for crosswords and other puzzles, or finding that word youve forgotten.
Search features include:
- Alphabetical listing
- Spelling, sounds-like and often-confused suggestions
- Fast pattern-matching search (*, ?, vowel and consonant)
- Filter search results by noun, verb, adjective, adverbs
- Customize search options (case, derived forms, etc)
No Internet connection is required to use WordWeb (unlike audio in dictionary.com). A smaller version without audio is also available - search iTunes for WordWeb.
[To hear sound make sure sound is not muted on your device]
Pros and cons of WordWeb Audio Dictionary app for iPhone and iPad
WordWeb Audio Dictionary app good for
Really good dictionnary & audio app and just for a little price.
I cant update the app. It keeps on saying "you cannot update it at this time" but then this is all the time 24/7!
Whats wrong? I do like this app!
The pronunciation part is inconsistent, varying between English and American accents. This would be confusing for second language users. Contextualizing the word in a sentence is very helpful. I have encountered a few instability issues/ sync freezes caused by this program. An update should fix this.
I think this Dic is simply the way should be and what is it other than British English???
this is a very great app, with only a bug: if you listen to the audio pronuncuatoin of a voice and then press to listen for another voice (in the search results list) if the first voice havent done playing the audio from the list will stop working, and you will have to open the full voice to hear pronunciations from then on. only way to solve this is full reinstall of the app
I was so phsyced to use this app but i guess it does not work on my Ipod Touch. But I feel good vibes coming from this app because it looks very well put together. If you have an Iphone i recommend you getting this app, but then again i did get it on sale for free.
Please make this available for Ipod Touches please!
4 stars for good look, good idea, very complete, but not compatible for Touches.
Some bad moments
Please add your contact info inside the app so that people can send you feedback. Please change the app icon and update UI design.
