WordCounter (Popularity:  )
(Score: 12.30)
Ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Filters out results to include or exclude small words, to use only root words or allow stemming, and to list 25, 50, or 100 words in order.
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Main\Computers\Internet\Web Design and Development\Authoring
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Word Spy (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.18)
Collection of recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are now being used in new ways.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\Etymology
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Compound Words Matching Game (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.15)
Match up short words to make new, longer words.
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Main\Kids and Teens\Games\Online\Word Games
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Words, Ink (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.06)
Words, Ink provides editing (copy and content creative), literary agency, and writing services. Affiliated with Words, Ink is a management and educational consulting segment.
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Main\Business\Business Services\Communications\Writing and Editing
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Max-Forth (Popularity: )
(Score: 11.01)
Documentation with all Forth words indexed, defined; in text and PDF. V3.5E is for F68HC11, has words for EEPROM. V5.0 is for 68HC12, has words for fuzzy logic instructions, flash memory; maximally modeled after v3.5E.
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Main\Computers\Programming\Languages\Forth
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Words Words Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.95)
Offering editing, writing, and web design services.
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Main\Business\Business Services\Communications\Writing and Editing
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World Wide Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.44)
Michael Quinion writes about International English from a British viewpoint. Hundreds of pages on the history, origins, evolution and idiosyncrasies of English, with features on new words and words in the news.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\Etymology
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Words, Words, and More Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.41)
Discussions and articles concerning words.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Style Guides
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New Words In English (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.13)
Neologisms and novel uses of words in English collected by members of the class Linguistics/English 215, Words in English: Structure, History and Use, taught by Suzanne Kemmer at Rice University.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\Etymology
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A Study of Some of the Most Commonly Misspelled Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 10.08)
An article by Cornell Kimball on the difficulties writers in English face in deciding the dictation of many common words in day-to-day usage. Also contains sources on 11 publications with lists of commonly misspelled words.
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Main\Science\Social Sciences\Linguistics\Languages
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A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.89)
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay
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Foster City International Writer's Contest (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.69)
Seeks entries in four categories: short stories (limit: 3,000 words); poetry (limit: 2 pages); children's stories (limit: 2,000 words); humor or personal essay (2,000 words). Entry fee: $12. Total prize money: $1,500. Deadline: December 31.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Contests
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The New Writer Magazine Annual Prose and Poetry Prizes (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.69)
Offers prize money totalling 2,500 pounds for essays (maximum 2,000 words), short stories (maximum 4,000 words), serials or novellas (up to 20,000 words), and poetry (maximum 100 lines). Closes November 30. Modest entry fees.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Contests
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Online Technical Writing: Spelling Problems (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.55)
Homonyms, doubled internal consonants, internal syllables or letters, words ending in -ance and -able, words ending in -cede, -seed and -sede, the silent -e rule, doubling consonants, words ending in -ie, -ei and -y.
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Main\Science\Social Sciences\Linguistics\Languages
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Strange Dictionaries (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.54)
Free online versions of the Dictionary of One-Letter Words, the Dictionary of All-Vowel Words, the Dictionary of All-Consonant Words, and other strange dictionary resources.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries
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In His Own Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.42)
President Bush's own words, from 2003's State of the Union matched with imagery.
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Main\Society\History\By Region\North America
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Pleasant Words International (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.42)
Offers plaques with inspirational, warm words and scriptures.
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Main\Shopping\General Merchandise\P
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Bible Word Association Tool (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.41)
Tables of which words 'turn up' with which other words in the KJV.
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Main\Society\Religion and Spirituality\Christianity\Bible
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The Wordsmyth S.A.T. Dictionary (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.41)
Includes 2000 words commonly appearing words on the S.A.T.
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Main\Reference\Education\Products and Services\Test Preparation
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Commonly Misused Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.41)
Explains the difference between similar words with different meanings.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Style Guides\Grammar
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Kids Hub - Halloween Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
Seasonal spelling words along with interactive drills and review game.
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Main\Kids and Teens\People and Society\Holidays and Special Days\Halloween
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Commonly Misused Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
Explains the difference between similar words with different meanings. [Adobe PDF file.]
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Main\Kids and Teens\School Time\English\Grammar
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Commonly Confused Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
Presents a list of words often used wrongly in scientific and technical writing.
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Main\Kids and Teens\School Time\English\Style
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Dying Words of Famous People (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
Includes last words, execution statements, suicide notes.
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Main\Reference\Quotations\Death and Dying
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Words by William Whitaker (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.40)
A Net interactive version of WORDS program at Notre Dame. About 30,000 entries.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\World Languages\L
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AnsMe.com Dictionary (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.37)
Finds definitions, similar-sounding words, relations, words that rhyme, and translations.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\World Languages\E
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Word Spy (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.37)
Site dedicated to recently coined words and existing words revived into modern usage.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries
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Glossary of Latin Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.37)
The words found in records and other English manuscripts, but not occurring in Classical authors.
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Main\Reference\Dictionaries\World Languages\L
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The Fictionary (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.37)
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay
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Untruisms and One-Trick Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.37)
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay
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Words and Stuff (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.37)
An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay\Personalities and Commentaries
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Wacky World of Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.33)
A collection of word games that offers the opportunity to play with letters, words, and phrases.
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Main\Kids and Teens\Games\Online\Word Games
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Wacky World of Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.33)
Letters, words, phrases, sentences...play with them all in this collection of online word games.
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Main\Kids and Teens\School Time\English
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Anagram Soup (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.33)
Contains words from which players make anagrams and shorter words and then checking their answers against the solutions provided.
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Main\Recreation\Humor\Wordplay\Anagrams
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Scrambled Words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.33)
Offers the opportunity to test the knowledge of the English language. The aim of the quiz is to unscramble ten four-letter words.
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Main\Kids and Teens\Games\Online\Word Games
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New Memory Help (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.33)
Offers tips for remembering keywords, technical terms, foreign words, words in certain contexts; languages.
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Main\Reference\Knowledge Management\Information Assets\Memory Improvement
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Sestina Creator (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.33)
Fill in the end words of the first six-line stanza and the site will list the order of the words in the rest of the poem.
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Main\Arts\Literature\Poetry\Forms
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Words Can Heal (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.28)
National campaign to eliminate verbal violence, curb gossip and promote the healing power of words.
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Main\Society\Issues\Violence and Abuse\Anti-Violence
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WordCounter (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.28)
Ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text. Use it to find keywords, or just to see what words you overuse. Free to use online, not a download.
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Main\Arts\Writers Resources\Software
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Brennaman, Mark - wit words (Popularity: )
(Score: 9.28)
Source for a wide variety of clean political, parenting and office humor plus weird words
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Main\News\Analysis and Opinion\Columnists\Humor
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