Meet Wordnik, your new meta lexicon
June 9, 2009 – 10:25 am
Wordnik — a suped-up and glorified word mecca-nexus — has a goal:
. . . to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known.
Enter any word and the online lexicon spits out a myriad of information, including:
- Examples — sample sentences of how the word is used
- Real time tweets — recent search results from Twitter
- Related words — including cross reference and synonyms from various thesauruses
- Pronunciations — written and a spoken recording with an option to record your own
- Images — from Flickr
- Etymology — multiple sources
- Notes — must be logged in to add them
- Tags — I really don’t see much need for this feature. Or it should be auto-tagged with synonyms
- Statistics — nice bubble graph on word usage and unusualness
Wordnik’s Bubble Graph
I like the feature of being able to register and contribute, but I don’t like the absence of an auto suggest for misspellings.
I also couldn’t find the parts of speech (ie. whether the word is a verb, noun, adverb, etc.) of the word or how to make the word plural.
And why no Wikipedia integration?
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