LingoPad – Multilingual Dictionary

Lingo4you Personal Advanced Dictionary

: LingoPad Screenshot

LingoPad is a free offline dictionary for Windows.

LingoPad contains a German ↔ English dictionary; other dictionaries (Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Kurdish, Norwegian or Arabic) can be downloaded as well. You can also import your own wordlists and use them parallel to the existing dictionaries. For each dictionary, a user dictionary can be defined to include additional wordlists.

The program is freeware and can be downloaded and used free of charge.

Download LingoPad
Version:	2.5.1 (Build 325)
Date:	2007-01-20
Size:	6.4 MB
MD5-Checksum:	b265ef1b4fb3a0da2eba080c5e332e09
Beta version:	LingoPad 2.6 Beta
U3 package:	U3 portable version

Forum:	Feedback and error reports
Downloads:	895,600 (07/2007)

If you have been using a version < 2.2, please uninstall the program before installing the new version.

: Unicode ready

Features

German ↔ English dictionaries
further dictionaries (e.g. Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Kurdish, Norwegian) available on clicking Online update in the Dictionaries menu
import of own dictionaries possible (Unicode ready)
freely definable user dictionaries
wordlist editor
search for beginning, ending and middle part of a word (*ending or *middle*)
search for collocations
activation possible with a customizable HotKey - automatic search for a tagged word or word from the clipboard
list of latest search words
download on memory stick possible
offline use
phonetic transcription for many English words
user interface in German and English
direct links to look up words on Wikipedia and various search engines

Word Lists

All but the dictionary on „Whales and Dolphins“ are premised on other free sources. We would like to thank the authors for their hard work and for allowing us to use these wordlists.

If you are not listed correctly or you do not want your wordlists to be used in LingoPad, please contact us per e-mail.

: Online Update

German ↔ English with approx. 230,000 entries and 670,000 references; wordlist created by TU-Chemnitz (Frank Richter)
Spanish ↔ German with approx. 19,000 entries and 28,000 references; wordlist created by Zeno Gantner
German ↔ English (glossary) with terms and definitions on Whales and Dolphins
Chinese ↔ German with approx. 3,400 entries (not audited 148,000) and 4,000 references (not audited 230,000); wordlist created by HanDeDict. Many thanks to Michael Engel and Jan Hefti for their support.
Japanese ↔German with approx. 390,000 entries and 1.100,000 references; wordlist created by Ulrich Apel and Hans-Jörg Bibiko.
Norwegian ↔ German with approx. 34,000 entries and 56,000 references; wordlist created by Heinzelnisse (Heiko Klein, Julia Emmerich)
Turkish ↔ German with approx. 33,000 entries and 80,000 references; wordlist created by Ferheng.org (Erdal Ronahi)
Kurdish ↔ German with approx. 17,000 entries and 35,000 references; wordlist created by Ferheng.org (Erdal Ronahi)
French ↔ German with approx. 23.000 Stichwörtern entries and 31.500 references; wordlist created by Zdenek Broz (All Free Dictionaries project - Dicts.info).
Italian ↔ German with approx. 28,000 entries and 63,500 references; wordlist created by ItalDict.de.
Various dictionaries, e.g. German ↔ Khasi or German ↔ Latin have been converted from Freedict.org. Many thanks to Michael Bunk for his support.
Arabic ↔ English with approx. 135,000 entries and 220,000 references; wordlist created by Arabeyes Project.

Other Sources Used

The IPA transcription for English words is baded on the spelling dictionary, created by Carnegie Mellon University
Icons and flags were created by Mark James

Further Information

Dictionary for Linux, Unix and MacOS X

LingoPad is only available for Microsoft Windows. For use on other systems, you can download the following freeware programs: Ding (Linux, Unix) by Frank Richter and MacDing (MacOS X) by Matthias Ihrke.

Software lists

Freeware-Guide

Changed: 25th Sep 2007 12:59

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