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Today’s list of the day is “favorite five-letter words,” by user chained_bear. It includes gems like okapi, sprue, and shard.

Filed under: List of the Day — Tags: five-letter words, List of the Day, okapi, shard, sprue — Grant Barrett @ 3:00 am

Comments (2)

I came here after the multiple NYT mentions. I like dictionaries of this sort. One particular thing I would like to know (for anyone who cares to answer) is what distinguishes this site from Wiktionary (other than that this is not a wiki). Old media tends to show Wikimedia projects very little respect, but this site seems sufficiently well-grassrooted for such a question not to be dismissed out of hand.

Comment by J. D. P. — December 20, 2009 @ 10:01 pm
J.D.P — thanks for the nice comment! We’re glad you like Wordnik.

Wordnik is like Wiki-projects in that there are multiple opportunities for members of the community to add information, but we differ in that we think the core part of the information about words — how they are used — must come from real-life examples. We like our examples to have been written without thinking about how they might be used in a dictionary, which is why we pull them from real text.

I hope this helps!

Comment by Erin — December 21, 2009 @ 5:46 pm