

Since every user can contribute, correct and verify translations is something like the Wikipedia of German-English dictionaries: open, fast and community-driven. It doesn’t have tons of bells and whistles, the design may be somewhat outdated, but its real strength is in the results, which include many idiomatic phrases and terminology from a variety of fields. This is by far one of my favorite German-English dictionaries online. But since there are still key differences in terms of layout, results and other features, I’d like to share a quick overview of my favorite German-English dictionaries in this post. Most online dictionaries today are high quality and will translate most words and even phrases without a hitch. Whenever people ask me which online German-English dictionary is the best, whether to use an app, a browser extension, an offline lookup tool or just go full retro and lug around a paper dictionary, I always answer: “Whatever works for you is best.”
