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Somehow, my Dictionary application can't find anything. No matter the word, the English dictionary always returns with "no entries found."
The English thesaurus, French dictionary, and French-English dictionary all work. But, the regular-old English dictionary gives me nothing.
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Ideas on how to get the stock English dictionary back?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.3
Hello TaylorSmith,
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities. We understand that Dictionary doesn't produce expected results, and we're here for you.
First, we suggest following steps 1-3 in the support article below. Quitting, then reopening the app, restarting your Mac, then checking for updates might help.
If an app on your Mac stops responding, closes unexpectedly, or won’t open
If the issue persists, we recommend isolating the issue further to your settings or to a more wide-spread issue. To do this, test the issue while booted into safe mode or in another user account. Here's how:
Start up your Mac in safe mode
Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac
We hope this information is useful. Kind regards.
I have tried doing both a "Safe Boot" and a reinstall of Big Sur, but the problem remains. I get the same results through Spotlight. It appears the English dictionary is simply not installed (or is not where the app is "looking" for it). Is there somewhere I could go to download this?
TaylorSmith,
Thanks for getting back to us after completing those steps.
Since the issue still isn't resolved after following each of the steps in the support articles we shared above, we suggest getting in touch with Apple Support:
Have a great rest of your day.
English dictionary: "No entires found"
