Web-based Reference.com Alternatives

There are many alternatives to Reference.com as a web app and since it's discontinued a lot of people are looking for a replacement. The best Online alternative is Wikipedia, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Reference.com and many of them are available as a web app so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Online alternatives to Reference.com are Encyclopædia Britannica, Wikiless, WordReference and Tatoeba.

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  1. Wikipedia icon
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    Free content, multilingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers through a model of open collaboration, using a wiki-based editing system.

    66 Wikipedia alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  2. The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., a privately-held company. The articles in the Britannica are aimed at educated adult readers, and written by a staff of about 100 full-time editors and...

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    • Freemium
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  3. Tatoeba icon
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    At its core, Tatoeba is a large database of example sentences translated into several languages. Search example sentences translated into many languages. Add and translate your own sentences. It's collaborative, open, free, and even addictive.

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  4. Dictionary.com icon
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    The free Dictionary.com app delivers content from Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, including nearly a million words and definitions and 90,000 synonyms and antonyms. No internet required!

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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  5. WikiSpooks.com icon
     28 likes

    WikiSpooks is a global alternative encyclopedia on politics, spy craft, deep state intelligence, and conspiracies, free of corporate influence, partisan politics, or government propaganda for historians and truth-seekers to read, edit, and share.

    78 WikiSpooks.com alternatives

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    • Free
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  6. Linguee icon
     43 likes

    Linguee is a new kind of dictionary app for French-English, Spanish-English and other language pairs. You will find reliable translations in the shortest time, even when you're offline.

    107 Linguee alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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  7. Merriam-Webster icon
     45 likes

    Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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  8. dict.cc icon
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    dict.cc is not only an online dictionary translating from English and German to 21 languages. Its an attempt to create a platform where users from all over the world can share their knowledge in the field of translations.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  9. Power Thesaurus icon
     29 likes

    Power Thesaurus is a fast, comprehensive and easy-to-follow online thesaurus for writers, journalists, students and teachers.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Opera
    • Firefox
     
  10. WikiIndex icon
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    Welcome to WikiIndex, a wiki of all wiki, wiki people, wiki software, wiki farms, and wiki ideas, a 'work in progress' founded in 2006.

    44 WikiIndex alternatives

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    • Free
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    • Online
     
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