Merriam User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience83.2% of reviews
Neutral4.8% of reviews
Negative experience12.0% of reviews

~ Based on 2,510 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Merriam Safe?

Merriam-Webster Dictionary appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Merriam is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 323,824 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
1.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 323,824 App Store ratings for Merriam.

Is Merriam Legit?

Merriam-Webster Dictionary appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Merriam is 90/100.

Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

The Spun

Merriam‑Webster is the dictionary that behaves like a polite cosmic librarian: definitions collapse like wave functions, pronunciations wobble like particles in indecision, and etymologies slip through linguistic wormholes. It’s crisp, clever, and secretly powered by dark matter giggles. A stellar lexicon swirling in grammatical spacetime.
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Handy

Excellent app, comes in very handy in the crunch!

World of words at your fingertips

As a writer, I truly love having this app on my phone to help me when writing or even just trying to prove someone wrong lol.

Excellent.

The word of the day section is my favorite. Hoping to utilize them with my writing.

Good app

Less ads would be nice

Great app!!

This is a great app! I would buy this 100 times over again, the only thing that gives it a four out of five star is that there are some gross ads😭😭 like someone burning their toenail off😭😭 *very disturbing

I love that it doesn’t give a very long definition, but a short one that you can write down!
Please get!
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Unusable due to ads

This app is a complete waste of time with its constant and unrelenting advertisements. I had to delete it just to stay sane. You can hardly look up two words without being bombarded with full-screen ads that can’t be closed unless you follow the link or completely close out the app and reopen it to start again. It’s just not worth the hassle.
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Pay, or run…

The ads in the free version are intolerable and frequent. Big yikes. As bad as the ads are, why would I agree to pay just to not be annoyed? It’s some weird kind of bullying. And charging for an app when you can just use a browser?… or pay for Oxford instead?… It’s a crime. Experiment complete, app deleted.
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The best dictionary of American English!

This dictionary has maintained quality through the enormous changes brought on by the internet. Lineal descendant of Noah Webster’s company. I still have my paper edition of Merriam Webster Third Edition from the 60’s on India paper. The premier dictionary app for those who love the language.

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Great meaning and fast pace

It’s W

See best I’ve ever seen tbh

Bummer a Dictionary doesn't Update its Language Quizzes

Half the reason I decided to shell-out $10.- for an annual subscription was for the supposed daily word play quizzes: Vocabulary, True/False, and What is this thing?. But these quizzes NEVER UPDATE, basically once you've played each 'easy, medium, hard' section, it is just the same all day everyday, which is disappointing in general, but Particularly in a DICTIONARY app; typical LAZY, instant automated Tech Blech Cash Grab nonsense. Sad. I expect better from Merriam-Webster...
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Wonderful app!

This is one of my all-time favorite, often-used apps. The dictionary and thesaurus together are extraordinarily useful!

This is Perfect

ALL THE WORDS IN THE WORLD LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOO THANK YOU!!! 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Thesaurus

I am a duck

Buenísimo

Muy buen diccionario, te dice todo lo que preguntas

Essentials

Can’t express how much the dictionary and thesaurus helped me as a kid to learn words aand help with speechh hahah

Ads

Sellouts

Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

Can’t think of a word or correctly pronouncing it? It’s all there at Your finger tip! And examples how to use the word. I use it everyday! The spoken word is great!

Good dictionary

Very helpful dictionary! Quick answers. Sometimes the ads can be annoying but it’s understandable that they’re there.