
Wordroot
Word origins, traced
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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.


