Access America's most respected dictionary, updated with new words and meanings. This app offers offline access, voice search, daily vocabulary challenges, and a thesaurus. It's designed for English language reference, education, and vocabulary enhancement.
Reviews of Merriam are mostly positive: the Reference app is rated 4.8/5 from 331K App Store ratings. What users like most: easy to use, comprehensive definitions. Top complaints: ads can be intrusive, difficulty closing ads. Summarized from real user reviews.
5.9.6
September 22, 2026
A dictionary update with 1,400 new words and definitions.
No 3rd party advertising
4 issues
App crashes when searching for certain words
Widget does not update daily word
5 requests
Add spelling correction suggestions
Improve word game timer and scoring
This app provides access to America's most respected dictionary, continuously updated with new words and meanings. It's designed for English language reference, education, and vocabulary building, offering features like offline access, voice search, and a thesaurus.
Key features include offline access to definitions and synonyms, voice search, a daily 'Word of the Day,' word games for vocabulary testing, favorite word tracking, and an integrated thesaurus with over 200,000 word choices. It also offers audio pronunciations by real English speakers.
The app is free to download and use with ads. An in-app purchase is available to remove ads and gain access to specialized dictionaries such as Kids, Medical, and Legal dictionaries.
The app is optimized for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. It also offers a scrolling index for tablets and an Apple Watch extension for quick access to the 'Word of the Day' and definitions.
The app aids English learning through its comprehensive dictionary, thesaurus, example sentences showing word usage in context, audio pronunciations, and daily vocabulary challenges. The 'Word of the Day' feature and word games are specifically designed for vocabulary enhancement.
