Does Lexico have dictionary entries in American English?

Question

My recollection is that the old Oxford Dictionaries site had entries in both American English and "British & World English", which could be accessed through different urls.

Lexico has British & World English entries, whose addresses have the format https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/ followed by the headword. Is there any way to access Oxford's American English entries through the Lexico site? Much of the information is the same, but the American English pronunciation guides are often different.

Answer 1

The American English dictionary is back again in its full form. From About | Lexico:

3. How can I switch between the UK and US dictionaries?

When performing a search, select the drop-down menu next to the search bar (or below the search bar on mobile) to select the dictionary you'd like to use. This drop-down menu also allows searches of our grammar articles or the thesaurus. The selector will remember your preference for subsequent searches.

This update seems to have happened sometime in February 2020.

Confusingly, though, the entries of the British dictionary is under https://www.lexico.com/definition/... while the American dictionary is under www.lexico.com/en/definition/....

Old links to the American dictionary on Oxford Living Dictionaries (en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/...) now redirect to the corresponding pages.

Answer 2

The Lexico FAQs say that this is no longer possible in general:

When searching in the English Dictionary, a toggle between US and UK English is no longer provided. We treat all of English as one dataset, but default with British and World English (which is equivalent to the UK Dictionary toggle selection). That means when you look up a word, you will most likely find the British and World English spelling and pronunciation. However, some US English words don’t exist within this dataset, and in that case, you may come across a US entry for a word as there is no British and World English option. The main spellings and pronunciations for the US entries will be US English.

If you are looking for a British and World English/US comparison, feel free to use Lexico for your British and World English needs and Dictionary.com for US spelling and pronunciation comparisons.