Ordinary Dictionary

Support

Help, error reports and suggestions.

Thanks for using the dictionary. If something looks wrong or you'd like an improvement, pick the right channel below.

An error in the dictionary content

A wrong translation, a typo in an entry, a missing word, a dubious morphological analysis — the dictionary data comes from digitized classical lexica (Dvoretsky, Middle Liddell, LSJ) and the Morpheus morphology, so report it directly to us: we will fix it in the next dictionary build or pass it upstream.

The source of a given entry is shown on the word card and on the sources page.

An app problem or an idea

A crash, a freeze, search behaving oddly, an awkward interface — or a suggestion. That's for us too, in the tracker on GitHub (a GitHub account is required):

FAQ

Do I need the internet?

No. Search, text reading, the inflection tables and text recognition (OCR) work offline. The network is only needed to open external links and for anonymised usage statistics.

Is it really free? Any ads or subscriptions?

Yes — free, with no ads and no subscriptions. The app is built on open dictionaries and resources created by their communities, so being free is a kind of thank-you to those projects.

Where do the translations come from?

Russian entries come from Dvoretsky's Ancient Greek–Russian dictionary; English ones from the Middle Liddell and LSJ (Perseus). Morphological analysis is Morpheus. The full list of sources with licences is on the home page and on the app's About screen.

How is privacy handled?

The app doesn't collect your queries, opened words or history. Details are in the privacy policy.

Why does the app want the camera?

The camera and photos are used for text recognition (OCR). The permission is requested only on first use of that feature; everything else works without it.

Can I add my own dictionary?

Yes. The app imports dictionaries in the od-dict/1 format — see the format description.