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Type of site | Reference (dictionary, thesaurus, etc.) |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Wordnik Society, Inc. |
| Created by | Wordnik Society Inc. |
| URL | www |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 81,556 (as of 20 January 2012[update]) |
| Launched | June 2009 |
Wordnik, a nonprofit organization, is an online English dictionary and language resource that provides dictionary and thesaurus content.[1] Some of the content is based on print dictionaries such as the Century Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, WordNet, and GCIDE. Wordnik has collected a corpus of billions of words which it uses to display example sentences, allowing it to provide information on a much larger set of words than a typical dictionary. Wordnik uses as many real examples as possible when defining a word.[1][2]
Wiktionary, the free open dictionary project, is one major source of words and citations used by Wordnik.