The PONS English - German online dictionary is a free online resource for everybody.

Look up a word or a phrase by typing it in the search box. You can choose to search in both language directions or in just one direction.

Also try all the other free bilingual PONS online dictionaries available on this site. You can select them with the drop-down menus on the right of the search bar.

Key Features of the PONS English - German online dictionary

  • More than 1,800,000 words, meanings, phrases and translations
  • Information on pronunciation including phonetic transcription and audio output
  • English and German virtual keyboards (to help with special characters in each language)
  • Suitable for school, university, work and leisure
  • Bidirectional search (English > German and German > English)

Why use the PONS English - German online dictionary?

Are you looking for the best English - German online dictionary? Then you have found out. Millions of internet users worldwide rely on PONS online dictionaries every day.

Carefully edited by experts, the PONS online dictionary includes everyday language, regionalisms as well as specialist language and terminology (for example technical, medical, scientific and legal).

Thanks to the constant updating and revision of content by PONS editors and lexicographers, we guarantee a high-quality, complete and up-to-date dictionary with the best translations. Users can also help to enrich the dictionary with their own contributions. All contributions are checked by language experts before publishing.

The dictionary’s well-structured entries cover a broad spectrum of subject areas and include all relevant linguistic information (for example word class, plural forms, article and phonetical transcription). This makes the English - German online dictionary suitable for all users (students, teachers, self-learners, professionals and everyone who simply wants to learn a new language).

The dictionary also helps you to improve your English and German pronunciation: it provides audio pronunciation of words and phrases for different regional variations of a language. Example sentences make it even easier to use a word or phrase correctly.

Contact us

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Headword List of the English - German Dictionary

Browse the dictionary using the headword list to see an alphabetical list of English words beginning with that letter. And click on it to get to the German translations.

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