Key Features

ABBYY Lingvo x3 contains licensed dictionaries from reputable and renowned publishers such as Oxford (in cooperation with Duden, Hachette, Paravia), Compact Verlag and Russkij Yazyk.

All ABBYY Lingvo x3 versions let you access to high quality, comprehensive dictionaries for different language pairs.

Each dictionary entry contains detailed information on word and word combination with possible translation, usage examples from real sources (such as books, newspapers and other publications), grammatical descriptions, synonyms, antonyms, spelling alternatives, phonetic transcriptions and audio pronunciations recorded by native speakers.

ABBYY Lingvo x3 provides audio pronunciation of words and phrases from native speakers to help improve your pronunciation.

You can access to audio pronunciations for words up to six languages including: 

• 15,000 English words
• 20,000 Russian words
• 5,000 French words 
• 10,000 Spanish words 
• 10,000 German words 
• 10,000 Ukrainian words

ABBYY Lingvo x3 also includes phrasebooks for some language combinations with audio pronunciations for common expressions, of course recorded by native speakers of the languages.

Lingvo X3’s powerful database helps you work efficiently with quick retrieval of terms and word combination. For example, when you look up a German word “Suchwerkzeug“ which is built from two separate words, ABBYY Lingvo will provide you with the translation of its components:

In addition to its comprehensive vocabulary, ABBYY Lingvo x3 delivers advanced search capabilities such as full text search and wildcard search.

Full text search allows users to search for words and word combinations in all texts of its dictionaries including headwords, translations, examples sentences, and comments. You can use this function to find the translation of expressions and idioms.

Wildcard search helps you search for words and phrases based on a pattern, by substituting the * and ? symbols for unknown letters:

"?" stands for any single character (including a blank space);
"*" stands for any sequence of characters (including blank spaces).

You can use the wildcard search feature to find words which you are not sure how to spell, to find all phrases containing a given word, or to solve crossword puzzles.

To save time retyping frequently used words, word history provides a list of the last 100 words searched.

With ABBYY Lingvo X3, you can instantly translate unfamiliar words when browsing the Web, reading e-mails or texts on the screen* without changing the application or interrupting your current work. Simply point the cursor at a word and get the translation in a pop-up dialogue.

*This feature needs text layer in order to show you the translation of unknown words (pictures for example do not have a text layer)

If you need detailed information about the word including all its meanings, translations and example sentences, press Alt, Ctrl or Shift key and while holding it down click on the word. Alternatively, you can select the word and pressCtrl+Ins+Ins or Ctrl+C+C.

ABBYY Lingvo x3 comes with a tool for memorizing words, Lingvo Tutor. With Lingvo Tutor, you can set up your study schedule, create your own lists of words that you would like to memorize or use one of the sample word lists included in the program.

Lingvo Tutor word list