You may already be very familiar with our dictionaries, but if you’re new to us or want to understand us better, we’d like to give you an overview. Wordsmyth currently has dictionaries…
Wordsmyth Features
What does the “unsaved” icon mean?
When you edit an existing word list but didn’t click the “preview and save” button, you will see this button next to your list in “My Word Lists.” It means that we…
What are collocations?
In recent years, Wordsmyth has offered a feature called “Word Combinations” that lists words that typically combine with the headword that one has looked up. A more technical term for “word combinations”…
Wordsmyth Vocabulary Inventory (WVI)
Headwords labeled with a number from 1 to 5 belong to the Wordsmyth Vocabulary Index (WVI). The WVI is a list of what we consider to be the 10,000 most important academic…
About the Wordsmyth “Word Combinations” Feature
The Word Combinations feature in Wordsmyth dictionaries displays words that are frequently used in combination with a particular headword. If you looked up “negotiate,” for example, you would be presented with words…