Unblock Wiktionary and look up the word you need

Wiktionary is one of the sites a proxy carries more easily than most, which is worth knowing if other pages have reached you broken. MediaWiki builds the entry on its own servers and hands over finished HTML, so nothing has to run in your browser for the definitions to appear. TrickyBird fetches that page, rewrites the links, images, and stylesheets in it so they lead back through the proxy, and hands the result to your tab.

The address of Wiktionary never appears in your URL bar or on the page you see, and the dictionary sees TrickyBird’s server instead of your IP address. Interlanguage links and the links between related entries keep working, because a small script left in the tab sends each of those requests back through the proxy rather than out to wiktionary.org.

The entry, in one piece. Open a common word and you get its blocks by part of speech, the etymology, the IPA pronunciation, the inflection or conjugation table, the usage notes, the quotations, and the translation lists at the foot of the page, in the same order and with the same tables as on a direct visit, so a reader who came to check a form or trace an etymology is not looking at a shortened copy. The tables keep their layout. Images inside the entry come through too, and the script samples and diagrams hang on those.

Searching from inside the dictionary works, so a link from somewhere else is not required. Type the word into Wiktionary’s own search box and the result list comes back through the proxy; open a result and you are in the entry. That is how most people arrive, since a half-remembered spelling is usually the reason to open a dictionary at all.

Wiktionary is a Wikimedia sister project on the same software as Wikipedia, so a filter that takes out one usually takes out the other, and both open through TrickyBird. TrickyBird gets you to a public site your network blocks and stops there: it is not a way past a paywall, an account wall, or a regional restriction.

Rarely for anything to do with the dictionary. A content filter works in categories. Wiktionary sits with the wikis and the reader-edited reference works, next to every site of that shape, so a school district or an office switches the category off and removes them all at once. Some filters object to individual entries because of the words explained there, then wall off the whole domain instead of the page they objected to.

Mainland China is a different case, because the block there is national rather than a setting someone in your office could change. GreatFire has recorded interference with en.wiktionary.org from mainland China since 7 July 2015, and its most recent test, on 9 May 2026, found the site blocked. Measurements like that cover the country, so which Wi-Fi you pick inside it changes nothing.

To run the service and stop abuse, the edge keeps a short access log: a shortened form of your IP address, the destination hostname, and basic response details, for at most 48 hours. There is no TrickyBird account for any of it to attach to, and our privacy page sets out the rest.