Wordroot

Wordroot

Word origins, traced

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  • Released
  • Updated
  • August 25, 2026
  • September 13, 2026

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Wordroot is a dictionary that shows you where words come from. Look up any English word and get clean definitions plus the full etymology chain — Middle English, Old English, Latin, Ancient Greek, Proto-Germanic, all the way back to Proto-Indo-European where the trail exists. • Fast search with definitions grouped by part of speech • Etymology chain showing each ancestor, its language, and how the word arrived (inherited, derived, or borrowed) • A word of the day to start from • No ads, no accounts, no tracking Definitions and etymologies come from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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What's New in Wordroot

1.0.3

September 13, 2026

The background now colors and drifts to match whatever word you're looking up.

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