🇦🇩 The best dictionaries for learning Catalan

The normative dictionary of Catalan — what the language academy says a word means and how it inflects. Monolingual, so it is a step up from a bilingual dictionary and worth making that step early: Catalan's closeness to Spanish and French makes a monolingual definition unusually easy to parse.

The Generalitat's language consultation service: a combined search across dictionaries, grammars and a large bank of resolved usage questions. When you are unsure whether a construction is correct Catalan or a Spanish calque — the commonest error for anyone who learned Spanish first — this is where the answer is.

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.