Dictionaries
Main Features
132,000 words, including 30,000 proper nouns
57,000 common expressions
1,675,000 synonyms
- Pronunciation of words and their inflected forms (accents from London and Toronto)
- Option to highlight prepositions
- Difficulties: homonyms, Gallicisms, etc.
- Antonyms (129,000)
- Combinations (834,000, with examples)
- Conjugation (9500 verbs)
- Semantic fields (2.8 million linked words)
- Families (17,400 word families, linking 71,000 words)
- Quotations (375,000)
- Etymologies (986,000)
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites (1400)
- Proverbs (550)
- Integrated access to 16,000 zoomable maps and satellite images (Internet access required)
- Integrated Access to Wikipedia (Internet access required)
Guides
Main Features
All the relevant topics for English writing
530 articles
- Grammar
- Spelling
- Style
- Punctuation
- Typography
- Syntax
- Lexicon
- Phonetics
- Language Matters
- Business writing
- Inclusive writing
Discoveries
Main Features
Shake and discover new words
Add your findings to your favourites or a personalized word list
Play the “Guess the Word” game
- Selection of recent additions to the dictionaries
- 1500 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- 550 fascinating etymological notes
- 1600 rare words
- 200 names of countries
- 600 names of cities and towns
- 1600 names of famous figures, both real and fictional
Interface
Main Features
- Stage Manager and Handoff support
- Full dark mode support
- Search on startup of a word copied from another app
- Option to highlight prepositions
- Search as you type, to find words quickly
- Error-tolerant search (e.g. eror)
- Definition search (e.g. Contains science)
- Anagram search
- Wildcard search (e.g. lum*, c?re?)
- Search “Word begins with/contains/ends with”
- Multiword search (e.g. wine study)
- Voice commands (e.g. “Synonyms of joy”)
- 14 Siri shortcuts (e.g. “Hey Siri, Synonyms, joy”)
- Tap any word to see its definition
- Turn pages with your finger
- See your browsing history
- Add and view your favourite words and articles
- Create personalized word and articles lists and share them
- Share any content via email or AirDrop
- Print any content
- Open content in another app
- Use portrait or landscape display
- Synchronize your favourites on iCloud (Internet access required)
- Synchronize your favourites with Antidote 11 and Antidote Web (with Antidote+)
