A new look for thai2english, autocomplete search and a better dictionary underneath

thai2english has been redesigned from the ground up: clearer fonts for both English and Thai, a header that stays with you as you scroll to make searching easier, and a simple homepage built around one thing - a big box where you can paste Thai, English or transliteration.

The dictionary pages have changed the most. Meanings are easier to scan, parts of speech are colour-coded, and words with several meanings now have a row of buttons at the top so you can jump straight to the sense you want.

Start typing and the dictionary now offers matches straight away, searching both languages at once.

It matches Thai script, English and transliteration by sound - so am-naat, amnat and อำนาจ all find the same word. Each suggestion also shows its meaning and how commonly it is used, so you can choose the right result without opening it first.

Multi-word English entries work properly now as well, so phrases such as figure out, more or less and New York all open a real dictionary page instead of being treated as sentences to translate.

Every Thai word now carries a Rare ←→ Everyday rating and a plain-English verdict - from learn this early to safe to skip for now.

The idea is to help you focus your time and attention on the words you are genuinely likely to need.

Thousands of the most common words also have a one-line note at the top explaining what they’re really about. งาน, for example:

When you translate something longer, you now get the full translation at the top with a copy button, alongside a numbered list of the individual sentences.

Click any sentence to see its word-by-word breakdown, then click any word in that breakdown to open its dictionary entry.

I’ve also fixed a couple of small errors that were quietly annoying. Where your original Thai contained a space, the transliteration now marks it with a ·, so you can see which gaps were yours. And if one line of a long passage fails to translate, you now get the rest of the result instead of an error for the whole thing. Both of these came from suggestions emailed to me - thanks!

The English-to-Thai side of the dictionary in particular has had a thorough clean-up.

We’ve reviewed it for missing words and phrases, added hundreds of new entries, and revised or clarified thousands of Thai definitions where the existing translations were incomplete, misleading or simply could be improved.

Some changes you’ll only notice by their absence.

Pages now do a fraction of the work they used to for the same result, repeat lookups are instant, and translations should appear more quickly.

Sorry if you’ve seen the “Under heavy load” message during particularly busy periods.

Going forward, you should see it less often. When it does appear, the spaced Thai text and word-by-word meanings will still be available - the same core functionality provided by the old site.

Only the automatic full-sentence translation will be temporarily limited, because every one of those translations has a cost for us to process.