Word Lookup website + Bulgarian (Update 2026-10-01)

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Note 1: In the lists below, when we refer to English or any other lang, it means not only the monolingual English dictionary benefits of the said improvements & fixes, but also all bilingual dictionaries using English as the destination lang (like ES-EN, FR-EN, KO-EN, etc.).

Note 2: With every update comes a bag of improvements & fixes in words definitions & etymologies for all langs. Those are changes directly applied on the Wiktionary by thousand of contributors. This is implicit that they are part of our dictionaries.

❤️‍🩹 Fixes

• French:
  • Skip falsy genders (26a9065).
  • Skip empty definitions in etymologies (24054e2).
• Portuguese: Keep relevant variants for the base form only (ae47cd4).
• Italian: Renamed the Verb part of speech to Verbo (eb91d28).

❤️‍🔥 New Features

• New language: Bulgarian 🍾 (monolingual#2792).
• You can now look for words in any monolingual dictionary online at https://lookup.reader-dict.com 💝 (initial idea & work by @lasconic, monolingual#2535).

• English, French, Portuguese, Russian: Use head words, when specified, to retreive more variants (for example with the Russian word "улица", we now also keep its "у́лица" head word so that both are found in the dictionary instead of only the former).

💖 Improvements

• Display translingual definitions after localized ones; translingual part of speechs are suffixed with a localized " (international)" shortcut (62fc7c4).
• Rename the [=] part of speech to localized Translation.
• Retreive missing bilingual dictionaries pronunciations from monolingual flavors.
• Smart synonyms-only word handling: when a word contains only synonyms, either remove them if variants are present, or use the definitions of any synonyms to populate the words data.

• Danish:
  • Improve pronunciations finding, and keep only a relevant one (62fc797).
  • More variants (efe39e5).
• English:
  • More pronunciations (2361bc1, 2570843).
  • Keep non-list usage notes (example with the Latin-English etiam word).
• French: More variants (19cd83b).
• Italian:
  • More sections (eb91d28, da29b94, b5ac15e).
  • More pronunciations (76faece).
  • More variants.
• Portuguese: More variants.

💔 Temporary Blockers

• None.

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As always, you can track opened issues for changes:

• Projects: reader-dict/report-a-word & reader-dict/monolingual

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