🇳🇬 The best dictionaries for learning Igbo

An open-source dictionary project that does what older Igbo references do not: marks tone properly, records audio, and flags dialectal variants instead of pretending Standard Igbo is universal. Igbo is tonal and diacritics are routinely dropped online, so a reference that keeps them is the foundation everything else sits on.

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.