Dictionary API

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Category: Knowledge · Auth: none · Status today: OK (HTTP 200) · 623 ms

Example request

This is the exact probe the sentinel runs daily — one read-only GET:

curl -s 'https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/hello'

Example output

Captured 2026-08-16 19:46 UTC (application/json, first 400 chars):

[{"word":"hello","phonetics":[{"audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/hello-au.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75797336","license":{"name":"BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"}},{"text":"/həˈləʊ/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/hello-uk.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia

Checked 2026-08-16 19:46 UTC by the Free Tier Sentinel. Machine-readable: api-health.json.