We’ve got impostors in this quiz! Can you identify the real words among these weird and sus choices? Try not to let the nonsense fool you! (We promise you’re not a deefus, a futzer, a yampy, or a lurd if it does.)
A new year means new opportunities. No, we don’t mean going to the gym with you for a week. It is a perfect time to learn cool new words! To that end, we provide great words every day through our Word of the Day and Synonym of the Day. These two daily offerings are fantastic ways to learn some awesome new words and synonyms. But …
There are many different ways to learn new words. You can simply wander through our dictionary or thesaurus until you stumble across a cool new word. Or keep an eye on our Word of the Day and Synonym of the Day for a daily dose of cool words. But what if you want to check out a whole bunch of words at once? Or perhaps …
What’s in a name? Well, it depends on the name. There are thousands of common and popular names in English. Most have their own unique meanings, but a few have more meanings than others. That’s because they happen to overlap with common English words that are found in the dictionary. Take the name Trace, for example, which is commonly used as a boy’s name and …
Language is a living thing, and so is Dictionary.com. Our dictionary will always be a work in progress—there’s no day in the future when we’ll mark it “complete” after adding the last word. This never-ending work is the job of our lexicographers, the (amazingly talented) people who write and edit the dictionary. They do more than just add and define words. They also add new …
We tried to think of a pun about dictionaries for this introduction, but thinking so hard gave us a headache—it’s thesaurus our head has ever been! Welcome to the Dictionary.com Pun Hall of Fame. Home of good puns, bad puns, funny puns, and the most groan-inducing puns in all the land. If you’ve got a pun-believable pun, share it with us, and you, too, might …
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We love all kinds of words: big words, small words, words with silent vowels, and even the word moist. With that in mind, we wanted to find words that feature the word word in them. Without getting too wordy, we managed to find words like foreword, afterword, and doubleword that fit our criterion of being a word with the word word in the word. Being …
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We love to look at words, and today the name of the game is words that end in -nym. The ending -nym or, most often, -onym is a combining form from Greek that means “name.” Apparently, we love naming names because there are a whole bunch of words that end in -nym. Some of these words are pretty common, but we managed to find quite …
