WordReference is, at first glance, an online dictionary. Yet, as you delve further, you’ll discover it’s so much more.
When you first visit www.wordreference.com you will find a search bar and a list of language pairs. You can type a word in any language and then choose which language you’d like to translate it into, and away you go.
So, you can type in “house”, select “English — Spanish” and you’ll get “casa”. Or you can type in “casa”, select “Spanish — English” and you’ll get “house”.
So that’s WordReference on a basic level. But you can pretty much do that on Google Translate. The way in which WordReference is different is that it’s much more like a dictionary than a translator.