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Free Online French-English and English-French Dictionaries
And Translators

Some of these dictionaries are downloadable, making them available without an Internet connection. A few of these dictionaries can even perform basic text translation.

Here are some of the best resources available for French dictionaries and translators:

French-English and English-French Dictionaries

• Word Reference offers comprehensive English-French and French-English dictionaries.
  http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/welcome
  
• French Linguistics offers a grammar guide, French phrases, and a French translation service in addition to the dictionary.
  http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary
  
• Reverso also contains commonly used words and expressions.
  http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-french
  
• Lexilogos offers translation online, grammar, and spelling, as well as a dictionary.
  http://www.lexilogos.com/english/french_dictionary.htm
  
• This French audio dictionary offers vocabulary lists, verb tables, and word videos, all of which allow you to hear the words spoken correctly.
  http://www.audiofrench.com/
  
• Look Way Up is an online multilingual dictionary that can be put on your browser, Web page, mobile phone, etc.
  http://lookwayup.com/free/FrenchEnglishDictionary.htm
  
• Larousse dictionary is available free of charge.
  http://www.larousse.com/en/dictionaries/french-english
  
• The Collins free dictionary offers more than 40,000 French words and references.
  http://www.collinslanguage.com/free-online-french-dictionary.aspx
  
• With Ultralingua, you can look up English and French words and phrases.
  http://www.ultralingua.com/onlinedictionary/index.html
  
• You can download this free dictionary (for Windows), or browse both the French-English and the English-French lists online.
  http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/french.php
  
• This online dictionary is available as a Talking Electronic Dictionary offering prompt translations of words and expressions, as well as advanced synthesis of speech.
  http://www.ectaco.com/English-French-Dictionary/
  
• This combined French Dictionary Lookup gives you general and encyclopedic terms, as well as slang and informal words.
  http://www.babylon.com/define/103/French-Dictionary.html

Free Translators

• Google Translate is a good, basic translation tool with Google's technology behind it.
  http://translate.google.com/
  
• Reverso enables translation of text and web pages between English and French.
  http://www.reverso.net/
  
• Babelfish gives you several language translation options.
  http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
  
• Microsoft Translator is the technology behind Bing Translator service.
  http://www.microsofttranslator.com/
  
• This site will help you to translate text in a variety of languages.
  http://translate.reference.com/translate