• Panabee

    Panabee by Panabee

    Panabee is a brainstorm engine for finding cool names and checking domain availability. While most domain search engines focus on availability, we focus on brainstorming. Since we can't magically produce names, we act instead as an uber-brainstorming partner. Many tedious tasks are automated: finding related terms, performing translations, exploring variations, and searching Google. We even quasi-simulate word association by displaying related comments from Twitter and Facebook. Hopefully some of this stirs your inner creativity.

  • Hexname

    HexNa.me

    HexNa.me takes all your boring, old, and hard-to-remember color codes, and finds similar colors which, when converted to English using 'l337-speak', yield interesting words!

  • F-ing_wotd

    The F-ing Word of the Day for iPhone by lab101

    Many of you reading this are already familiar with the concept of The Word of the Day. Well, this is a new spin on an old favorite. Here’s the idea: things are easier to learn when it involves sex, drugs, and fucking swearing. Why? Because we’re interested in that shit.

    Based on the hugely popular website of the same name, The F-ing Word of the Day is the most entertaining way to learn a new word everyday.

  • Nook-wotd

    Word of the Day for Nook by Wordnik

    We’re thrilled to be powering the official word of the day application for the Nook Color, now available at the Nook Apps store!

    Learn interesting words every day — and really understand how they’re used by seeing how they’ve been used in great books available in the Nookbooks Store. (And the app includes audio pronunciations, too!)

    Interested? There’s more information here.

  • Wordnik-search-for-firefox

    Wordnik Search for Firefox by Studio Cliffano

    Wordnik Search is a Firefox Add-On which adds a right click menu option to search highlighted text on Wordnik.com . When there's no highlighted text, a search dialog will show up and you can type in the text that you want to search.

  • Sms

    twtdict by Michael Howland

    twtdict: n. service that allows users to tweet a word and receive the definition, anytime, anywhere.

  • Android

    Wordlog for Android by 3qubits

    Gadder, hobthrush, nunatak, coronis? WordLog is a great dictionary app for Android that allows you to keep track of those words you encounter here and there, and that you don't want to forget about.

  • Blekko

    Blekko by Blekko

    We feel downright ebullient to be powering the "/define" slashtag for the awesome guys at Blekko! Slashtags are our favorite thing about Blekko — you can use one (like /define or /language) to limit your search to just the slice of sources that are the most likely to give you the answer you need. You can make your own or you can use the preset slashtags that Blekko provides. Blekko's lots of fun — but even more useful. Try it, we think you'll like it!

  • Wordsquared

    Word² by Massively Fun

    The world's first massively multiplayer crossword game. Pit your wordcraft against hundreds of other players all playing at once!

  • Lebumj

    Lebumj by Prabhu Velayutham

    Lebumj is an advanced Jumble game for iPhone/iPad with a fresh set of words powered by Wordnik dictionary, which means words will not repeat. You get to play with a fresh set of words every time.

  • Boss_banana

    Boss Banana by Damien Brunet

    A Google Chrome extension that lets you translate small blocks of text as you browse the world wide web. Simply select the text you want to translate, and the translation will automatically appear in a notification.

  • Say_it

    SayIt by Tieg Zaharia

    Send any word via SMS to 917.740.1911. You'll receive a call with the pronunciation (if found), and also an optional definition!

  • W_rds

    W_rds! for iPhone by Tapestry

    W_rds! is a word finding and reference app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Geared toward players of popular word games (such as Words with Friends), it features word look-up for OWL/TWL, SOPODS and ENABLE dictionaries. It also provides definitions, usage examples and cross-reference with related words. W_rds! features an attractive, intuitive user interface and is designed to work natively on both iPhone/iPod touch and iPad devices.

  • Binu

    biNu by biNu

    For all the fuss about smartphones, most people still have what are called feature phones. Features phones are simpler than smartphones, but many can still run basic apps. biNu is a company specializing in this enormous if little-heralded market, and theyve used the Wordnik API to build a dictionary and translation app optimized for basic phones. Its been downloaded almost 300,000 times in the month since it launched, making it both Binus most popular app and, other than Wordnik.com itself, one of the larger sources of traffic to Wordniks API.

  • What_comes_to_mind

    What Comes to Mind? by Peter Brown

    A simple word-association game. Make intuitive relationships with whatever comes to mind.

  • Windows_phone

    ArkWords by Arktronic

    A dictionary, a thesaurus, and a multi-language translator for Windows Phone. In addition, it has a swanky Live Tile that updates every morning with the word of the day.

Other Apps using the Wordnik API

  • Facebook

    Facebook Hangman - You guessed it. A hangman game on Facebook!

  • Freebase

    Freebase WordNet Explorer - Freebase is a large collaborative knowledge base consisting of metadata composed mainly by its community members. It is an online collection of structured data harvested from many sources, including individual 'wiki' contributions.

  • Android

    Wordnik for Android - Android has always been lacking an attractive dictionary solution. A solution that is simple, ad-less, and free. Hopefully Wordnik Android fills this gap. A simple & straightforward interface -- type the word and see the definition and example usage.

  • Google_talk

    Google Talk Bot - You can now access the Wordnik features over GTalk or any other XMPP client.

  • How-fast-your-typing

    How Fast Your Typing - A very simple, incredibly addictive word game.

  • 10k_random

    10K RANDom - Make more words, get a bigger random! Make words using the letters you're given. Use your keyboard, start typing, hit 'enter' to submit your word. Hit 'backspace' to go back. It's super fun!

  • Purple

    Purple - The sexiest dictionary on Earth and Jupiter.

  • Reworder - an automated paraphraser - Enter a paragraph of text. We'll run it through our highly sophisticated algorithms* and output a lovely, totally original piece of text.

  • Hangman_deluxe

    Hangman Deluxe for Windows Phone 7 - Hangman Deluxe has reached over 45,000 downloads, peaked at #52 out of 6,000+ in the marketplace, and it is still in the top 100 (top 2%) of Windows 7 apps.

  • Crossword Composer - Crossword Composer supports the creation, editing, and sharing of two puzzle types, the US type that you might see in, say, the New York Times, and the Cryptic variety that you might see in the Guardian or the Independent, or many other UK newspapers.

  • Google_wave

    wordnikbot for Google Wave - wordnikbot is a Google Wave bot that inserts Wordnik definitions into your blips. Once installed, you should see a heart button on the button-bar when editing a blip. Simply highlight a single word, then click the heart button. After 5-10 seconds, the bot will insert a definition from Wordnik.

  • Phraseup

    phraseup* - Phraseup assists you with writing by finding -- and filling in -- the words you can't remember.

  • Scrabble

    The Scrabble Cheaters Dictionary - Have you ever backed yourself into a corner, lexicographically speakingwhile playing Scrabble, or chatting around the water cooler at work, or telling tall tales at the pub? The story is an unfortunate but familiar one: a linguist, polyglot, or other linguaphile finds themselves in the heady position of declaiming to the untutored masses on the subject of a particular word, only to realize that perhaps theyve over-reached, and no such word exists. A standard fallback position in such a situation is to claim certainty that the word in questionwhile the details may be fuzzysurely exists. Maybe not in every linguistic commoners dictionary, but assuredly somewhere in the bowels of the OED. To that end, we have created The Compleat Encyclopaedia of Compendious Historical Lexicons of Obscure and Archaic Vernacular and Nomenclature. It is an infinite lexiconunbound by the constraints of time, space, or truth. Any and every word anyone will ever desperately need to demonstrate is indeed found in the English language is presentcomputationally incanted from the lexicographic ether, ad hoc.

  • Gamewordz

    Gamewordz - GameWordz is a complete dictionary reference for players of word games that helps you cheat, ahem, find and solve for the best words, giving you the highest score possible. If you've ever played Scrabble®, Boggle® or Words With Friends®, you'll appreciate what GameWordz has to offer!

  • Wordster - Wordster makes you a better and more efficient player at Words with Friends by enhancing the Words with Friends experience with a dictionary and wildcard search.

  • Chrome

    Dynamic Language Tools - Dynamic Language Tools is a set of tools for on-page translation, transliteration and dictionary and image lookup. The transliteration feature helps you in reading and writing by converting the roman words to the corresponding language phonetic words. For example, if you type 'Shukria', the transliteration to Urdu will convert this to شکریہ . This extension support all the transliteration language pairs support by Google API.

  • Gelly

    Common Words Tool - Do you write blog posts, articles or emails? Did you know using a smaller vocabulary helps young readers, skimmers and non-native English readers understand you faster? The Common Words tool checks your writing and suggests more commonly used words. See an example.

  • Riight - A search engine.

  • JANA GANA MANA - A web-based dictionary.

Wordnik API Gallery

If your app uses words, you can use Wordnik's APIs to enhance and extend it. Check out the games, mobile dictionaries, and editing tools that have been created so far—and if you build something cool, please let us know.