The best dictionaries for learning Galician

We tracked down 4 of the best dictionaries for learning Galician, including 3 you can use for free. Our top picks right now are Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, DIGALEGO and Wiktionary. Every entry below is hand-checked, and the ones that teach you come first — with free options ahead of paid ones wherever they are as good.

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The Royal Galician Academy's dictionary — the normative one.

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Defined in Galician, from the body that sets the standard. Use it to settle what is correct Galician rather than what is a Castilian calque, which is the commonest error for anyone who speaks Spanish first — and almost every Galician speaker does.

The Xunta's Galician dictionary, with Spanish equivalents.

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A practical bilingual companion to the Academy's monolingual dictionary — faster when you are reading and want a gloss rather than a definition.

Wiktionary

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Free multilingual dictionary with etymologies, IPA and full conjugation tables.

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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.

Forvo

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Crowd-sourced pronunciations of nearly any word by native speakers.

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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.