Words

This section of our website allows you to play around with words. You can search for words having specific letters and sounds, see which words we find interesting, and view lists of words with special characteristics—like anagrams, and difficulty level.

Vocabulary Builders

Favorite Words

Some people find words fascinating. If you are one of those people, this section is for you. This section has a list of words that we’ve run across that are interesting enough to remember. Each word is presented with a definition and several examples of its use. Seeing how a word is used helps to fix the definition in your memory so that the next time you see the word you’ll be able to understand the meaning of the sentence.

Today’s Word

We’ve picked out one word from our favorites list to be featured each day.

Aviation Words

We’ve picked out a group of words from the FAA Glossaries app to be featured each day.

Words by Level

We’ve attached a difficulty level to over 20,000 words. This section groups them by difficulty.

Interesting Words

Special Cases

Have you ever wanted to know all of the words that have the vowels in order? How about all of the words that you can type with your left hand? This section has special cases that aren’t of any practical use but are fairly interesting.

First Names

This is a collection of common first names.

Anagrams

This list is generated from our big words database. We excluded many of the words in the database that differ only in capitalization e.g. Bob and bob, but some slipped through. We also excluded words and phrases with spaces or hyphens, e.g. ninety-seven and seventy-nine. There was no human input in the selection process so you may find things that make no sense.

Word Frequency in Text

Frequency

I’ve often wondered how often someone uses a particular word. Politicians seem especially prone to using certain words over and over in their speeches. Paste or type text into the box and we’ll count the frequency of each of the words.

Sight Words Frequency

If you want to check on the number of sight words that are in a section of text, paste or type the text into the box. We’ll sort them, indicate whether they are a Dolch or Fry word, and count the frequency of each word in the selection.

Sounds

Consonants

Find all the words with a specific consonant in the Initital, Medial, or Final position in a word. You can also find pre-vocalic and post-vocalic consonants.

Consonant Clusters

This is similar to the last section except that it lets you find all the words with a specific consonant cluster in the Initital, Medial, or Final position in a word. Note that English doesn’t have some sounds in the initial position (tl, dl, vl, and zl) but we’ll let you search for them anyway.

Vowels

Use this section to search for vowel sounds in the Initial, Medial, or Final position.

Social Studies

Things to know about the US government.

States/Capitals

This is a quick exercise for learning the states and their capitals.

Presidents

This is a quick exercise for learning the names of the Presidents and the time when they served.

Fun Stuff

Miscellaneous fun things to learn.

Phonetic Alphabet

The Phonetic Alphabet is a spelling alphabet used by pilots and the military to prevent confusion when spelling with similar sounding letters e.g. p/b t/d. Each letter is given a name and pilots communicate using a transformation from the letter names to the Phonetic Alphabet names.