Merriam-Webster Dictionary+5.9.6 - App Store

Get America's most useful and respected dictionary, optimized for your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Continuously updated with the newest words and meanings, this is the premier iOS app for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building.

Key Features:

* No ads!
* Premium Content: Over 15,000 additional entries covering people and places
* Offline access: Complete access to definitions and synonyms whether or not you're connected
* Voice Search: look up a word without having to spell it
* Word of the Day: learn a new word every day
* Word Games: fun, fast quizzes to test your vocabulary
* Favorite Words and Search History: keep track of the words that are most important to you
* Favorite Word Syncing Through iCloud: share your favorites between devices and on the Web
* For Tablets: browse the entire dictionary with a scrolling index
* Apple Watch Extension: see the Word of the Day and find watch-sized definitions with voice search

Expert Word Guidance:

* Integrated Thesaurus: more than 200,000 word choices with examples of their use
* Example Sentences: understand how a word is used in context
* Audio Pronunciations: voiced by real English speakers, not text-to-speech robots
Terms of Use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/terms-of-use

Version History A dictionary update with 1,400 new words and definitions. 5.9.6 Sep 22 Bug fixes. 5.9.5 Jul 29 A dictionary update with new words, and newly revised definitions.
Bug fixes. 5.9.2 May 13 A dictionary update with new words, and newly revised definitions.
Bug fixes. 5.9.1 Apr 8 A dictionary update with new words, and newly revised definitions.
Bug fixes. 5.9 11/13/2025 Bug fixes and other small tweaks. 5.8.3 05/12/2025 Dictionary updated with new words, and newly revised definitions.
Bug fixes and other small tweaks. 5.8.2 03/16/2025 Dictionary updated with new words, and newly revised definitions. 5.8 12/10/2024 Bug fixes and other small tweaks. 5.7.2 07/12/2024 Bug fixes and other small tweaks. 5.7.1 01/27/2024 Latest dictionary update with new words and revised definitions!
Bug fixes and other small tweaks. 5.7.0 10/31/2023 Dictionary update with new entries and revised definitions.
Bug fixes and other small tweaks. 5.6.8 06/14/2023 Updated dictionary with new word additions! 5.6.7 12/23/2022 Updated dictionary with new word additions! 5.6.6 10/17/2022 Dictionary update with new entries and revised definitions.
Search improvements. 5.6.4 03/15/2022 Updated dictionary with new entries! 5.6.0 10/27/2021 Updates to the look and feel of the app.
Fixed a few small bugs. 5.5.2 08/20/2021 Dark mode
Improved Accessibility features
Additional tweaks and updates 5.5.0 07/19/2021 New dictionary and thesaurus entries!
Word-of-the-Day widget for iOS 14.
Bug fixes and user experience improvements. 5.2.3 02/04/2021 -Thousands of new words!
-User login to share your saved words across all Merriam-Webster Collegiate apps and the website
-Clean, easy-to-read new design 5.0.3 03/05/2020 New dictionary and thesaurus entries.
Siri Shortcut integration. 4.6 02/28/2019 We completely restructured our database to get you dictionary updates faster and more efficiently #allthewords
And, to demonstrate that: here are some new words! Hangry, bingeable, and thousands more are now available on the app! 4.5 09/18/2018 Bug fixes.
WatchOS Update. 4.4.1 04/27/2018 iPad multitasking! We’re knocking off our most requested features one-by-one.
Bug fixes and other tweaks (e.g. the search box doesn’t flip down awkwardly on startup anymore). 4.4 03/23/2018 iPhone X support (FINALLY!)
Many bugs quashed 4.3.2 02/15/2018