We tracked down 4 of the best dictionaries for learning Scottish Gaelic, including 3 you can use for free. Our top picks right now are LearnGaelic, Am Faclair Beag 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.
4 resources · 3 free
Scotland's official free Gaelic hub — courses, dictionary, video, all of it.
About this tool →Publicly funded and free: a beginners' course with video, a full dictionary with audio in several dialects, grammar guides, and an archive of Gaelic television. It is the single place to start and the place you keep coming back to. Nothing here is trying to sell you anything.
The Gaelic dictionary that also gives you the grammar of each word.
About this tool →Two-way Gaelic–English with inflection, gender, and Dwelly's historical dictionary folded in. Gaelic initial mutations mean a word rarely appears in text in its dictionary form; this handles that, which is the whole reason it is the one learners use.
Free multilingual dictionary with etymologies, IPA and full conjugation tables.
About this tool →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.
Crowd-sourced pronunciations of nearly any word by native speakers.
About this tool →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.
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