Among its features,
Dictionary.com offers a Word of the Day, a crossword solver, and a pop culture dictionary that includes emoji and slang sections. In 2010,
Dictionary.com began a
Word of the Year feature with the word
change. The selection is based on search trends on the site throughout the year and the news events that drive them.
Dictionary.com's words of the year have been: • 2021:
allyship • 2022:
woman • 2023:
hallucinate • 2024:
demure • 2025:
67 In April 2009, they launched an
app on the
Apple App Store allowing users to find definitions and synonyms. It also included audio pronunciations, alphabetical indexing, and synonym example sentences. Since then,
Dictionary.com released a standalone
thesaurus app called
Thesaurus Rex along with education apps,
Dictionary.com Flashcards,
Word Dynamo, and
Learning to Read with Zoo Animals. In early 2020, in response to
COVID-19 quarantine home-schooling needs,
Dictionary.com launched an interactive platform for learning at home, and an online tutoring service. Later that year
Dictionary.com's sister site,
Thesaurus.com, launched a writing assistant and grammar checker called
Grammar Coach. The
coronavirus outbreak led to the addition of novel words to the main dictionary (e.g.,
fomite) and the slang dictionary (e.g.,
rona). == See also ==