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All your dictionaries, in your browser

WuWeiDict (wudict) searches all your local dictionaries at once and shows the results in the browser, at localhost:6888. It is a single executable with no dependencies.

Install First run Browser extension

Formats

  • MDict

    .mdx and .mdd. HTML articles; resources (audio, CSS, scripts) in .mdd archives.

  • StarDict

    .ifo, .idx, .dict. Synonym files, resources and dictzip compression are supported.

  • Aard 2

    .slob. One file with articles, images, audio, scripts and stylesheets.

  • Lingvo DSL

    .dsl and .dsl.dz, with .dsl.files.zip resources.

  • Babylon

    .bgl. Character sets detected automatically; resources read from the file.

  • ZIM

    .zim. Kiwix and Wikimedia archives, searched in place.

  • wudict markdown

    .wudict.md. A dictionary as one CommonMark file, readable and editable in any text editor.

  • wudict library

    text.db. wudict's SQLite format: one folder per dictionary, with an optional media.db; portable between machines.

Formats

All dictionaries are searched at once, and each dictionary's results are shown as soon as it answers.

Mode Matches Needs
exact the headword, ignoring case and accents: corazon finds corazón
prefix headwords that start with the query
wildcard headwords that fit a pattern of ? and *: c?t, *ology, *rain* (syntax) headword index
full-text words in the article text, ranked by relevance full-text index

The full-text index is added per dictionary in the dictionary panel (☰), which shows its size.

With lemma data, a search for an inflected form finds the lemma: understood finds understand, estuviera finds estar. English is built in; other languages are installed from ☰ → folder summary → Lemmatization….

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Platforms

Platform
macOS command line, and wuDict.app with a menu-bar icon
Windows command line, and an installer; tray icon
Linux command line, with an optional systemd user unit (Run at startup)
Android app, with lookup from the text selection and share menus and from reading apps

Privacy

No account, no telemetry, no analytics, no crash reporting. wudict connects to the internet only to download what you ask for. See the Privacy Policy.