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Lingua Robot vs Wiktionary

Lingua Robot

Lingua Robot is a RapidAPI-hosted REST dictionary covering more than 800,000 English lexical entries — words, phrasal verbs, and multiword expressions — with definitions, pronunciations, and morpheme/lemma data returned as JSON, documented on a separate Apiary reference site rather than its own marketing homepage. A live unauthenticated request against its real RapidAPI proxy host returned a reflected `access-control-allow-origin` header plus `access-control-allow-credentials: true`, reconfirming CORS; its free Basic tier covers 2,500 requests/day (then $0.004 each), with paid Pro/Ultra/Mega plans ($10-$99/month) raising the daily ceiling.

Wiktionary

Wiktionary exposes its full multilingual dictionary — definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and translations spanning thousands of languages — through the same MediaWiki Action API that powers Wikipedia, with no key required for read access. Cross-origin browser requests need the documented origin=* query parameter rather than a bare Origin header, since that's what actually unlocks the API's CORS headers.

Lingua RobotWiktionary
AuthenticationAPI KeyNone
Pricingfreemiumfree
FormatsJSONJSON, XML
CORSyesyes
HTTPSYesYes

Wiktionary needs no API key, while Lingua Robot requires API Key — pick Wiktionary to start without signup.

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