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If you use DuckDuckGo, you can just type
!wt wordyouwant. This takes you to the English Wiktionary entry (EDIT: I forgot to mention this language depends on your DDG locale), where Wiktionary is a (really rich and underappreciated) sister project to Wikipedia that acts as an every-language-to-English dictionary (or e.g. an every-language-to-French dictionary in the case of fr.wiktionary.org, etc.)As an example of the first random word that came to mind: concentric
A reminder to fellow Kagi users - you can do the same! (all DDG bangs are supported, but you probably knew that already)
I use it often to look up the etymology of words.
I use
define:. Yesterday a friend asked me whether “stably” had an “e” in it and this was very helpful in answering.edit: My edit wasn’t relevant and my client confused me. Apologies to you.
if you have krunner installed, you can also look for the definition by typing
define wordyouwant
I’m more embarrassed about my calculator history. I use SpeedCrunch because it’s amazing, but boy does it remind me how stupid I am. 7+14, really?
Is it ironic that while reading this post I noticed that rule 5 spells “incite” wrong?
know what’s extra hard? those common words that are like a verb + a preposition like “find out”. i convince myself that the preposition i’m thinking of is wrong
Honestly, this has almost become a compulsive thing when reading. Nonstop looking up words.
