Top tips for using Sanakirja.fi

Create a Sanakirja.fi shortcut on all your devices for quick access. Do it at www.sanakirja.fi.

Set a password to your user account on the My Account page to have easy access on all your devices. If you have forgotten your password, log out and click Forgot your password? when logging back in.

If you access the service with an arganizational Microsoft account, Haka login or via IP recognition, you don’t need to set a password.

Customise the dictionary settings to your liking. You can access the settings from the ⚙️icon above the search bar. You can, for example, use a compact article view, change the order of specialist domains in search results and decide whether to display usage examples and audio.

In MOT Kielipalvelu® you can select either the Languages tab or the Dictionaries tab when looking up words. Use the Languages tab when you want to look up words in our entire dictionary selection in the selected language pair and go to the Dictionaries tab when you want to get results from a specific dictionary.

You can look up words simultaneously in multiple dictionaries of your choice with the My Dictionary Group feature. Go to the Dictionaries tab and choose My Dictionary Group. You can edit your group by clicking the book icon and select the dictionaries of your choice.

When you are using the Dictionaries tab in MOT Kielpalvelu®, you can choose from three different views into the search result after your first search:

• Search results in headwords: you get results the same way as on the Languages tab except the results come from the selected dictionary
• Search results in entire text: you get results from all the data in our dictionaries so in addition to a headword and its translation the result shows if your search word appears in usage examples or idioms
• Similar words: you get as results a list of words similar to your search word. This is especially useful when you are not sure how to spell your search word.

When typing in your search word, you can use the * symbol to replace multiple letters and the ? symbol to replace one letter either in the beginning, middle or end of a word for a broader search result. For instance, if you type in cat*, you get all the words starting with cat as a result.