Wordnik
| Wordnik.com | |
|---|---|
| Web address |
www |
Type of site | Reference (dictionary, thesaurus, etc.) |
| Registration | Optional |
| Available in | English |
| Users | 81,556 (as of 20 January 2012) |
| Owner | Wordnik, Inc. |
| Created by | Wordnik, Inc. |
| Launched | March 2009 |
Alexa rank | 21,571 (as of January 2012)[1] |
Wordnik.com is an online English dictionary and language resource that provides dictionary and thesaurus content, some of it 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.
Wiktionary, the free open dictionary project, is one major source of words and citations used by Wordnik.
History
Wordnik.com was launched as a closed beta in March 2009 and opened to all comers in June 2009.[2] Co-founders of the site are CEO Erin McKean, editorial director Grant Barrett, and chief computational lexicographer Orion Montoya. McKean, Barrett, and Montoya all formerly worked in the US Dictionaries Department of Oxford University Press.[3][4][5] In September 2009, Wordnik purchased social language site Wordie.org. All Wordie.org accounts and data were subsequently transferred to Wordnik.[6]
Statistics
As of 14 January 2012, Wordnik Zeitgeist reports that,[7]
| “ | Wordnik is billions of words, 971,860,842 example sentences, 6,925,967 unique words, 231,628 comments, 178,718 tags, 121,432 pronunciations, 77,736 favorites and 1,022,649 words in 32,703 lists created by 81,138 Wordniks. | ” |
| —Wordnik Zeitgeist | ||
References
- ↑ "wordnik.com Site Info". Alexa Internet, Inc. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
- ↑ "Old-School Word Nerds Meet The Digital Age". CBS News. 2009-06-08.
- ↑ "Erin McKean launches Wordnik – the revolutionary online dictionary". TED Blog. 2009-06-08.
- ↑ "Online dictionary is lexicography's answer to the Swiss Army knife". Calgary Herald. 2009-06-12.
- ↑ Ali, Rafat (2009-07-08). "Online Dictionary Site Wordnik Gets $3.7 Million Funding". Washington Post.
- ↑ "Wordnik & Wordie: Moving Day!". Official Wordnik Blog. 2009-11-11.
- ↑ "Wordnik Zeitgeist". Wornik, Inc. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
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