Wordnik is an online dictionary and word reference platform that provides definitions, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms, pronunciations, and more for millions of words. It also offers a developer-friendly RESTful API that gives programmatic access to its word data. Users can support the project by adopting words to help fund its operations.
Wordnik aggregates word data from multiple sources and exposes it via a web interface and a RESTful API that developers can access with a free API key.
word enthusiasts, writers, and developers building language-based applications
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- Status
- launched
- Business model
- freemium
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