Dictionaries, Translation and Decoding
Contains online dictionaries, translation tools, and tools to assist with decoding.
General Translation
Google Translate Translate text, documents and websites from any language into any other language.
Google Document Translation Allows you to translate document files with ease. Works with .doc, .docx, .odf, .pdf, .ppt, .pptx, .ps, .rtf, .txt, .xls, and .xlsx file types.
DeepL Translator Translate text and full document files instantly using AI.
Yandex Translate Synchronized translation for 100 languages, predictive typing, dictionary with transcription, pronunciation and usage examples, and many other features.
Translation2 Another free online translation tool.
TypeIt Handy keyboard shortcuts that take zero time to learn. Allows you to switch between languages while typing.
Morse Code Translator A simple tool that allows you to translate Morse code into readable text.
Stars21 Combines translators from Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex and more into one simple tool.
[PDF] Regional Naming Conventions This document describes the different naming conventions used in a variety of different languages. Archived copies can be found here (Wayback).
Translit A handy Cyrillic transliteration tool. This will come in handy when working with Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Armenian names.
Lingva Alternative front-end for Google Translate, serving as a Free and Open Source translator with over a hundred languages available.
LexiLogos Use this multilingual virtual keyboard if you need to type in a foreign language.
WALS Languoid Helps you determine the local language by latitude and longitude.
The Speech Accent Archive Helps determine where a person is from by identifying their accents.
Speech-To-Text The IBM Watson Speech to Text service uses speech recognition capabilities to convert Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, German, and Mandarin speech into text.
Grammica This free online grammar check uses a fully advanced machine-learning algorithm to identify grammar, spelling, punctuation, and syntax errors in your writing. They also provide many other useful tools such as a plagiarism checker, anagram solver and more.
GrammarChecker Allows you to check grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, and other writing mistakes. Our punctuation checker tool is easy to use and available in a web-based version.
Apertium A great open-source machine translation platform.
General Dictionaries
Ethnologue Discover and research the world's 7,139 known living languages.
Urban Dictionary A crowdsourced dictionary for common online and urban slang.
Emojipedia An encyclopedia of emojis.
Smart-Words A dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in SMS and chat rooms. Mostly for the boomers.
TranslatedLabs This language identifier calculates the similarity of a text with previously inserted reference texts and identifies the language.
WhatLanguageIsThis Just copy and paste a text snippet that you want identified into the text box above and click "Go".
Texas Glossary A glossary of slang terms commonly used in Texas, USA.
[IMAGE] Hobo Code Symbols A few images that help translate and visualize "Hobo Code". Archived copies available here (Wayback) and here (archive.today). There also are QR code versions of these symbols, which are available here. This page has been archived here (Wayback) and here (archive.today).
General Cracking and Decoding
CyberChef One of the best online tools for decoding and encoding texts and files. Created by the GCHQ.
dCode An online toolkit for decoding messages encoded in many different types of ciphers.
Cryptii Modular conversion, encoding and decoding toolkit.
RapidTables A collection of tools for conversion and decoding.
Hashes Crack MD5, SHA1, MySQL, NTLM, SHA256 and SHA512 hashes online.
Uses massive pre-computed lookup tables to crack password hashes. Supports LM, NTLM, md2, md4, md5, md5(md5_hex), md5-half, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, ripeMD160, whirlpool, MySQL 4.1+ (sha1(sha1_bin)), and QubesV3.1BackupDefaults.
EpochConverter A free online tool that converts Unix timestamps into human-readable format.
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