🇪🇸 The best dictionaries for learning Basque

The academy that created Euskara Batua, the unified standard, and publishes the dictionary and grammar that define it. Consult it when you need to know what is correct rather than what is common. Batua is a twentieth-century construction and the dialects it standardises are still spoken, which this site is honest about.

Elhuyar's dictionaries are what Basque speakers and translators actually use, with example sentences and technical vocabulary. Free online, and covering the direction most learners need most: into Basque, where the choice between near-synonyms is where you go wrong.

Over 100 language editions; the English edition alone has millions of entries covering hundreds of languages, with IPA, declension and conjugation tables, etymologies and usage notes that commercial apps usually paywall. The etymology sections are quietly one of the best vocabulary-retention tools available. Being crowd-sourced, coverage is uneven and rare entries can be wrong — cross-check anything unusual against a native-language dictionary.

Around 6 million words recorded by native speakers across 400+ languages, usually with several accents per word so you can hear regional variation. Free to search on the site; the paid tiers are aimed at API users and bulk audio downloads. Indispensable for names, place names and anything a TTS voice would mangle — many learners wire it directly into Anki for card audio.