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What are some other websites like Wordie,Org?

Asked by bridold (638points) August 4th, 2008

I love words! What are some websites that list unique words and give their definitions? Or anything relating to words?

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Breefield's avatar

The Big Word Project – Define the Internet.

Harp's avatar

Grandiloquent Dictionary” ...to collect and distribute the most obscure and rare words in the English language. ”

Metaplasm “a journal of metaplastic words”

The Collective Noun Page What do you call a group of…

Indy318's avatar

Jeff Foxworthy’s Redneck Dictionary
classic piece of American literature

Harp's avatar

You might also want to sign up for Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day

MacBean's avatar

The Phrontistery – “The Phrontistery is dedicated to expanding the study and enjoyment of English words and wordplay through the medium of the Internet.”

Addictionary – “An online open dictionary for words that don’t exist in the English language, but perhaps should.” Today’s WotD as an example: napoplectic. adj. the state a mother lapses into when their kid won’t go down for a nap.

Omniglot – “A guide to the writing systems and languages of the world. It also contains tips on learning languages, language-related articles, quite a large collection of useful phrases in many languages, multilingual texts, a multilingual book store and an ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources.”

augustlan's avatar

Ohhh, you all are feeding my word nerd habit! Now I’ll never get off the internet!

bridold's avatar

Thanks for all the great responses, guys!

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