Wiktionary

Wiktionary (/wɪkʃənəri/) is a wiki-based dictionary, a sister project to Wikipedia, run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

It is available in English and other languages, but each version also accepts both L1 and foreign entries.

The English entry has about 6 million content pages as of 2019, which is more than the English Wikipedia. Note that this is total different spellings in all their forms, rather than headwords.

Unfortunately, Wiktionary suffers from poorly structured data, because it conflates homographic spellings together into single entries, sometimes across multiple languages. For example, the entry on love contains a main entry for English, plus additional entries for Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, Friulian, Inari Sami, Middle Dutch, Middle English, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Romani and Serbo-Croatian(!). Meanwhile, the entry for “like” has no less than 9 entries in English, covering its use as a noun, 2 different verbs, an adjective, an adverb, a conjunction, and a preposition or particle(!)

The hall of fame for the most stupid Wiktionary entries can be found at Special:LongPages; highlights include a, go, line and set.

A better structure would see the non-English words split off into subdictionaries, and then have a separate entry for each English headword. Ambiguous spellings should be treated as ambiguities are treated in Wikipedia (and indeed Teflpedia) and actively disambiguated.

Nevertheless, in the absence of anything better that’s licensed under a compatible Creative Commons, Teflpedia does link to Wiktionary.

Technically speaking, Wiktionary classifies words according to traditional grammar rather than modern scientific grammar.

They also fail to identify (1) which verbs can undergo dative shift and those which can't and (2) reporting verbs.

It also contains errors, such as classifying same as a pronoun (it can take a determiner, so it's not a pronoun).

External links

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page