Identity & Authority: Dictionary.com – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Dictionary.com

(https://dictionary.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 29, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
14 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
93% Reputation

The Organization schema is robust, featuring multiple sameAs links to verified social profiles and a clear logo definition. A minor gap exists where the team of language experts is cited in the Word of the Day section without specific individual Person schema, though this is mitigated by the brand’s verified 30-year operational history.

Marketing claims are sparse and consistently substantiated. The claim of being a trusted authority is supported by the depth of definitions and the integration of the Random House Unabridged Dictionary and Collins English Dictionary sources. There are no bold performance claims lacking specific evidence.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Dictionary.com",
    "url": "https://www.dictionary.com/",
    "logo": "https://www.dictionary.com/static/images/common/logo-dcom-full.svg",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/dictionarycom",
        "https://www.instagram.com/dictionarycom",
        "https://www.x.com/dictionarycom",
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/dictionary.com/",
        "https://www.youtube.com/c/DictionarycomVideo"
    ]
}
/articles/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/word-of-the-day/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/browse/mercurial/
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "WebPage",
        "name": "Definition of mercurial",
        "url": "https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mercurial",
        "description": "'MERCURIAL' definition by Dictionary.com"
    },
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": [
            "DefinedTermSet",
            "Website"
        ],
        "@id": "https://www.dictionary.com/",
        "name": "Dictionary.com"
    },
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "DefinedTerm",
        "@id": "https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mercurial",
        "name": "mercurial",
        "inDefinedTermSet": "https://www.dictionary.com/"
    },
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "AudioObject",
        "contentURL": "https://audio.dictionary.com/M03/M0316000/M0316000.mp3",
        "description": "How to pronounce mercurial",
        "encodingFormat": "audio/mpeg",
        "name": "M0316000.mp3"
    }
]
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
4Review mentions (all pages)
4External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 0 1
/articles/ 0 1
/word-of-the-day/ 0 1
/browse/mercurial/ 4 1