WordWeb American Audio app for iPhone and iPad
4.8 (
8128 ratings )
Reference
Education
Developer:
Antony Lewis
Free
Current version:
3.71, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 04 May 2009
App size: 230.15 Mb
A quick, easy to use, and comprehensive American English dictionary/thesaurus with 70 000 professionally recorded audio pronunciations. Fast searching, detailed definitions, synonyms, derived words, examples, and a great user interface let you easily navigate between words as you discover and explore their meanings.
The comprehensive WordWeb dictionary database includes:
- 285,000 words, phrases and derived forms
- 225,000 word sense definitions
- 70,000 usage examples
- 70,000 audio pronunciations
- 90,000 text pronunciations
- Synonyms and similar words
- American, British and international vocabulary
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 crossword puzzles and finding that word or phrase youve forgotten.
Search features include:
- Alphabetical listing
- Spelling suggestions
- Sounds-like and often-confused
- 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.
[If the sound is off on your iPad check the toggle switch on the side (not the volume switch, the other one). On a phone make sure you have your ringer turned on and the volume turned up.]
Pros and cons of WordWeb American Audio app for iPhone and iPad
WordWeb American Audio app good for
Just name a small feature, in any words pronunciation, you tap it, it shows the keys not relevant to that word, very good thought. Other things i like shaking for random words. I will suggest adding some groups like random GRE words, make it student friendly. Pronunciation is very good, hope it can allow adjusting the speed. Nice work.
Very usefull dictionary, only thing need to improve is words pronunciation, it should be alouder. I have to tune the volumn on my itouch to maximum to hear clearly. It would kill me when I turn back to music if I forgot to tune volumn down.
The pronounciation sound is very quiet even with the volume fully throttled up. It should be the way to make it LOUDER.
Could you please add the capability to "COPY" any or all of the bookmarked words so one can transfer words they wish to learn/retain by PASTING them to the "Notes" section of iPod Touch or anyplace else.
Similarly, allowing a list of words (from elsewhere outside the App) to be pasted into the dictionary to be looked up right then in sequence or at a later date perhaps would also be fantastic for those of us who eagerly wish to improve our vocabulary!
Of the "BOOKMARKED" words, could you please add an additional indicator (a red star, an exclamation mark etc ...) so a persons most important words or the words one hasnt fully committed to memory can be selectively highlighted or made to stand out if one wishes too for more efficient learning!
Lastly, could the randomized "Word of the Day" feature be made to be more educational with fairly difficult/not all that common, but very important/useful words that all should strive to have in there own cerebral vocabulary database.
FIVE STARS AWAIT, IF THESE SUGGESTIONS COULD BE IMPLEMENTED!
Thank you for considering my input; hopefully I have conveyed the importance of these additions, especially for the many that use your excellent App solely/largely to build their vocabulary.
I really like the different country pronunciation choices.
Not happy with the US FLAG on the icon considering that this app has a multinational appeal. Yes colo(u)r me Canadiancentric!
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Its almost perfect except the fact that it doesnt open immediately when you switch it from one app to another. Another words it doesnt have multitasking feature... I would really appreciate if you fixed it... Thanks
Some bad moments
I bought this dictionary yesterday but I dont have the sound, I am very desapointed, bye
Do not buy this if you are still on iOS 4 or lower, audio does not work
This app is just a link to Wikipedia that tries to sell you the offline dictionary and the sound is too loud. I deleted it even though I paid for it
I just purchased this application and the audio does not work. However, the ref section is asking to download Chamber dictionary. I do not understand the reason for purchasing this application if it is only for audio. I am not sure what else to say than only fix those issues and I will give you the proper rating.
Sound does not work on the IPad 2
The whole point I bought this for is the audio and it wont even make a sound. If I have to pay for chambers dictionary then Im gonna looking for a refund
My daughter has dyslexia so I was looking for an audio dictionary to help her when she comes across a word she doesnt know. I downloaded this to find out only the word is spoken, not the definition or anything else. That really doesnt help my daughter. Sure, shell learn how to pronounce the words, but if she has trouble reading the definition, her vocabulary is not increased. I know I can turn on the voice over function on the iPad, but that makes the whole iPad function differently.
