How to programmatically search for a word from the built-in iOS dictionary?

Question

Is it possible to programmatically search for a word from the built-in iOS dictionary?

eg

: I have the word say 'apple' and I have to look for the presence of this word in the iOS dictionary.

Can anyone help ..?

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Krishna raj salim 11 Feb 13 at 5:13 am

1 answer

rmaddy · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-11T05:15:22+0000

You can use UIReferenceLibraryViewController dictionaryHasDefinitionForTerm:

to find out if a word exists in the dictionary.