I've attached a patch for what I think are a few improvements to dictionary.el's documentation. There are still a handful of undocumented functions/commands. The commentary section also redirects to an external source, which is not very helpful: ;; You can find more information in the README file of the GitHub ;; repository https://github.com/myrkr/dictionary-el I bumped into all this when trying out dictionary-tooltip-mode. I thought "oh, cool", enabled the mode, then...nothing happened. That's due to the dictionary-tooltip-dictionary defaulting to nil. Perhaps this user option could default to dictionary-default-dictionary instead.