merriam.com

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About

the dictionary by merriam-webster is america's most trusted online dictionary for english word definitions, meanings, and pronunciation. #wordsmatter

Categoryreference_materials/dictionaries_and_encyclopedias

Top 27,247

Global Rank

United States 74%

Top Market

-15%

Monthly Trend

42% Bounce

Engagement Signal

Monthly Visits

1,474,665

↓15.2% vs last month

Bounce Rate

41.8%

Pages / Visit

6.7

Avg. Session

6m 0s

Domain Age

31 years

Traffic

#27,247Global Rank

#6,044Country Rank (840)

#21Category Rank · Dictionaries_and_Encyclopedias

Traffic Trend

↓15.2%

Traffic Sources

Organic Search

50.0%

Direct

46.2%

Social

1.1%

Referral

2.6%

Paid

0.0%

0.1%

Strong brand recognition: 46.2% from direct traffic

Geographic Distribution

DomainShare

🇺🇸United StatesUS

73.8%

🇨🇦CanadaCA

5.8%

🇭🇰Hong Kong SAR ChinaHK

1.7%

🇬🇧United KingdomGB

1.4%

🇦🇺AustraliaAU

1.3%

Top 3 countries account for 81.4% of traffic — high geographic concentration

SEO & Keywords

Top Keywords

Keyword
scrabble	252.7K	$0.00	$6.8K
scrabble word finder	88.7K	$0.00	$62.8K
word finder	81.1K	$1.25	$7.1K
anagrammer	27.0K	$0.23	$5.4K
scrabble dictionary	17.9K	$0.00	$52.8K

SERP Rankings

Keyword			Ranking URL
words that end in o	#2	📄	scrabble.merriam.com/words/end-with/o	3,160	—
words that end in z	#1	📄	scrabble.merriam.com/words/end-with/z	2,210	—

Growth Readout

Direct traffic at 46% — strong brand recognition

Global rank top 27.2K — established player in the space

Traffic concentrated in United States (74%) — high geographic dependency

5 tracked competitors in this category — competitive landscape is well-defined

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Competitive Landscape

scrabblewordfinder.org

🔗 4 keyword overlap

scrabble word finder helps you find words and cheat in scrabble and solve word game puzzles like words with friends, wordfeud, jumble, wordle, spelling bee etc.

6.3M/mo-9%Sep 2013

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scrabble-solver.com

🔗 3 keyword overlap

Fast and easy to use Word Unscrambler. Finds all possible words from up to 12 entered letters and wildcards

889.2K/mo+9%Jan 2010

Shares 3 keywords including "scrabble word finder"

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wordfind.com

🔗 3 keyword overlap

Scrabble Word Finder is a Scrabble Cheat that helps you find all the words available for the tiles you have. Find words for Scrabble, Words with Friends Cheat, Jumble solver,

561.0K/mo+15%Jan 1999

Shares 3 keywords including "scrabble word finder"

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