---
title: "Is wiktionary.org Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "wiktionary.org"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is wiktionary.org Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
trust_score: 100
classification_confidence: 55
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/wiktionary.org
assessed: 2026-08-17
---

# Is wiktionary.org legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 100/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 100/100.** wiktionary.org appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-17 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Wiktionary front or index page listing available languages and stating it is a free multilingual dictionary, part of the Wikimedia family. |

## Evidence status and limitations


Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN

- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.

## At a glance

The checks that decide most of this verdict.

| Check | Result | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Malware engines | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 2% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear |
| Domain age | 24 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archived (No public history of this site) | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE2) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the wiktionary.org homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/wiktionary.org/screenshots/first.png)

_What wiktionary.org served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-17. The page may look different now._

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.

## Full analysis


### Overview

Wiktionary is a free, multilingual dictionary and reference website presenting language selection, search, and community-maintained lexical content across the Wikimedia ecosystem; its apparent model is non-commercial, supported by donations and volunteer contributions rather than direct sales.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or other contradictory signals were observed, and the site’s informational purpose is consistent with its presented content. A single low-confidence abuse report relates to a shared Wikimedia provider address rather than to Wiktionary specifically, so it does not establish site-level malicious activity or an identity contradiction. The real-world operator identity is not independently verified; accordingly, the site should be described as apparently legitimate and evidence-consistent with an established reference service, rather than as independently proven.


Evidence:
- The homepage presents a free multilingual dictionary with language listings and search functionality, with no observed deception or impersonation indicators.
- Behavioral testing recorded 2 successful runs, 0 external XHR requests, 0 external POST requests, 0 hidden forms, and 0 wallet-drainer runs.
- Major malware and browser-safety checks returned 0 malicious and 0 suspicious findings; no broker-reputation match was identified.
- One abuse report was attributed to shared Wikimedia infrastructure, with a confidence score of 2 and usage classified as Content Delivery Network.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The reviewed content presents a non-commercial reference service rather than a financial, brokerage, payment, or other regulated offering. Its identity presentation is internally coherent around Wiktionary and the Wikimedia ecosystem, although the available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator. No licensing claim or registration number is presented in the reviewed content; this is a limited disclosure point for regulatory due diligence, not evidence of a scam. The long-established registration, reputable corporate registrar, strong global traffic footprint, valid transport encryption, and stable reference-site content together support the established-site assessment.


Evidence:
- The domain was registered in 2002 and is approximately 23.69 years old; registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.
- The site is served from AS14907, WIKIMEDIA - Wikimedia Foundation Inc., US.
- TLS certificate issuer: YE2; validation level: DV; valid to 2026-11-03T19:15:40+00:00.
- Global traffic rank: 1307, within the top 1 million websites.

### What to Verify Next

For ordinary reference use, no elevated verification step is indicated by the observed content or behavior. If a prospective interaction introduces account credentials, payment, donations, or a third-party commercial request, the relevant Wikimedia relationship should be confirmed through an independently reached organizational source, and payment-protection and return terms should be checked before proceeding. Any sign-in or payment prompt that is inconsistent with the site’s reference-service purpose should be treated as a separate interaction requiring additional validation.


Evidence:
- The homepage is categorized as informational/reference content rather than a commercial transaction page.
- The presented site function is limited to dictionary search, language navigation, and access to free reference material.
- No sensitive form, external password submission, or wallet connection was observed during the reviewed interaction.

### Summary Verdict

Wiktionary has an **apparently legitimate, established-site posture** with low apparent scam or impersonation risk. The convergence of mature domain presence, coherent informational content, clean external reputation, and stable technical operation supports the high-trust classification, while independent operator verification remains incomplete.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves to infrastructure operated by WIKIMEDIA - Wikimedia Foundation Inc. in the United States and is not using a detected CDN or WAF layer; two likely origin addresses were identified. This direct hosting posture is technically coherent with the identified provider, although hosting infrastructure is a mitigating context rather than proof of operator identity.


Evidence:
- CDN/WAF detection: none.
- Likely origin IP count: 2.
- Hosting country: US; registry: RIPE NCC.

### Closing Assessment

Routine read-only use is proportionate to the observed posture; before any credential or payment interaction, ordinary independent identity, payment-protection, and transaction-term checks should be completed.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found


No rule findings contributed to this verdict.

### Signals weighed against the site

- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 2a02:ec80:300:ed1a::1 (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 2% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |

- No on-site identity signals detected

_Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence._

## What TrustSniffer observed

First-party facts recorded during the assessment of wiktionary.org.

- The request stayed on wiktionary.org. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under MarkMonitor Inc.. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by wikimedia.org, across 3 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-14. (Noted)
- It is hosted on WIKIMEDIA, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | MarkMonitor Inc. |
| Hosting | WIKIMEDIA - Wikimedia Foundation Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2a02:ec80:300:ed1a::1 |
| Name servers | ns0.wikimedia.org, ns1.wikimedia.org, ns2.wikimedia.org |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-03 |
| Domain age | 23.69 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-14 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 2% confidence, 1 report \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about wiktionary.org at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.

TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/wiktionary.org) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/wiktionary.org · assessed 2026-08-17.*