Wordnik

Wordnik.com
Type of site
Reference (dictionary, thesaurus, etc.)
Available inEnglish
OwnerWordnik Society, Inc.
Created byWordnik Society Inc.
URLwww.wordnik.com
RegistrationOptional
Users81,556 (as of 20 January 2012)
LaunchedJune 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06)

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.

  1. ^ a b "Wordnik". Wordnik.com. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
  2. ^ Eisenberg, Anne (2011-12-31). "Wordnik's Online Dictionary: No Arbiters, Please". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-08.