Universal Basic Lexicon
Find a shared word when you do not share a language.
Choose a language or variety, search 110 everyday concepts, then show the word at full size.
- Concepts
- 110
- Languages
- 1,756
- Varieties
- 2,064
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Source and limits
Useful vocabulary, not an interpreter.
Terms come from the January 2017 PanLex Swadesh Corpus. They can be incomplete, ambiguous, dialect-specific, or outdated. Use a trained interpreter whenever accuracy is critical.
Optional deeper sources
When 110 concepts are not enough
These projects provide broader offline dictionaries. They are not included in the built-in pack yet.
Kiwix Wiktionary
Broad definitions and translations in ZIM archives.
Full English text-only archive: about 8.5 GB as of May 2026.
FreeDict
Deeper bilingual dictionaries for about 45 languages.
Sizes and licenses vary by language pair.
External archive sizes are estimates and can change when publishers replace a snapshot.