Words Grow: Living Dictionary

Words Grow is a dictionary you grow by reading, made for anyone hungry to read lots of English. Read freely, save new words right where you meet them, and check them in an English-English dictionary. Every word keeps the context it came from, and your own dictionary grows with every page. SAVE WORDS WHERE YOU READ • Read Wikipedia's featured article of the day, or any English page, in the built-in browser • Long-press a new word to save it • Or select a word in Safari and tap Share → Words Grow • Words you have saved show in bold green on every page, so you can see at a glance what you already looked up DIG DEEPER WITH ENGLISH DEFINITIONS • English-English definitions and examples from Wiktionary, by part of speech • IPA pronunciation, plus a speaker button to hear the word • Every word in a definition is tappable: follow one word to the next • Inflected forms are saved as the dictionary form (running → run, leaves → leaf) SEE THE TRAIL OF EVERY WORD • A family tree shows the page you met each word on, and the words that led you to it • Words from the same article and the same chain of thought stay together, which makes them easier to remember • For each word, look back at the sentence, page and time you met it YOUR OWN DICTIONARY • All your words in one list, with how often you looked each one up • Mark the words you have understood with a check • Add words you met off the web, like in a book • Definitions are kept on your device, so they open offline too TRANSLATIONS, ONLY WHEN YOU WANT THEM • See each sense translated into your language: Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French or German • Translations stay hidden until you tap, so you think in English first 30-SECOND TUTORIAL • A short guided tour, available in English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French and German Definitions, translations and pronunciations come from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).