Logophiles are “devastated” after Dictionary.com has deleted their favored words newspapers that they carefully designed for years. The company has deleted all accounts, as well as the only ways to use Dictionary.com without seeing ads, even if you have already paid an experience without advertising.
Dictionary.com offers a free dictionary via its website and free Android and iOS applications. It offered paid mobile applications, called dictionary.com Pro, which allow users to configure accounts, use the application without advertising and allow other features (such as grammar advice and scientific and rhymes) that have disappeared now. Dictionary.com premium applications also allow people to download an offline dictionary (its free applications allow you to buy a downloadable dictionary as a single channel), but offline dictionaries are no longer available.
Suddenly chopped accounts
About a year ago, the claims of the Dictionary.com applications during Buggy surfaced online. We also found at least one person saying that they could not buy an upgrade without advertising at that time.
Dictionary.com account reports are deleted and applications do not work as expected, and with a large part of its deleted content, began to appear online about two months ago. Users have declared could not connect and access Premium features, such as recorded words. Shortly after, the premium dictionary.com applications were deleted from Google Play and Apple App Store. The Premium version was available for download for $ 6 on March 23, according to the Internet Wayback Machine Archive.
A Reddit user who described himself as a premium customer said he had contacted the Dictionary.com assistance email and received a saying response, in part:
After a careful examination, user accounts of the dictionary.com application were interrupted. Consequently, users are no longer able to connect to their accounts, and all the lists of recorded words are no longer available.
Unfortunately, as the coding technology used in the previous application version is different from what is used in the new application, it is not possible to recover lists of words.
This change was part of our recent application update to improve the design, speed and features of the Dictionary.com application. Although we understand that this modifies the way you use Dictionary.com, we hope you will see that global improvements provide faster search, additional content and better design.
Another online person would have received a similar message. Some people said they couldn’t get in touch with dictionary.com. Ars Technica tried to contact Dictionary.com via several messages to her assistance team, at the Press Office of the Mother Ixl Learning company and the Dictionary Media Group, which IXL launched after acquiring Dictionary.com in 2024 and includes websites like vocabulary.com, multiplication.com and homeschoolmath.net. We have received no response.
