Words Tools
Word tools for writers — look up definitions in the dictionary, find synonyms and antonyms in the thesaurus, or discover rhymes.
Find words that rhyme with any word, covering perfect rhymes, near rhymes and the words that famously have no rhyme at all.
Anagram Solver & Word UnscramblerUnscramble letters to find every word you can make, with sub-anagrams and length filters for word games and puzzles.
Text to SpeechRead any text aloud in your browser using the voices installed on your device, with speed and pitch control and no audio sent anywhere.
Speed Reading TrainerRead your own text one word at a time in a fixed spot, from 100 to 1200 words a minute. Honest about what the technique does and does not do.
Language Arts Worksheet GeneratorPrintable spelling, word-scramble, fix-the-sentence, reading-comprehension and handwriting worksheets, randomised each time.
Acronym MakerTurn any phrase into an acronym, skipping the small words and showing pronounceable variants, with the difference between an acronym and an initialism.
Language TranslatorTranslate text between 40 languages with voice input and spoken output, with a frank account of where machine translation is and is not trustworthy.
IZ Talk TranslatorTurn any phrase into izzle speak, where 'for real my friend' becomes 'for shizzle my nizzle' — with a note on where the style came from.
Syllable CounterCount syllables, words and characters in text and check for palindromes, with an honest account of why English syllable counting is genuinely hard.
Word Cloud GeneratorTurn text into a word cloud where the most-used words appear largest, with stop-word filtering — and a note on why they mislead as often as they inform.
Fancy Text GeneratorTurn plain text into fancy Unicode styles for social media bios and posts — with a clear warning about what they do to screen readers and search.
Reading Time CalculatorEstimate how long text takes to read silently or to say aloud, with the reading speeds behind each figure and where the estimate breaks down.
DictionaryLook up word definitions, pronunciations, parts of speech and examples, with notes on why dictionaries record usage rather than prescribe it.
ThesaurusFind synonyms and antonyms for any word to vary your writing — with the caution that near-synonyms are rarely interchangeable.
Ghost — the Word Game, SolvedPlay Ghost against a perfect opponent, and see the solve: 25 of the 26 opening letters lose, and the exception depends on your dictionary.
Countdown Letters Round & Vowel MathsPlay the nine-letter round against a timer — and see which vowel split is actually best, measured over thousands of racks rather than argued about.
About these words tools
Word frequency in English follows a pattern regular enough to be unsettling. Rank every word by how often it appears and the frequency falls off as roughly one over the rank: the second most common word appears about half as often as the first, the third about a third as often, the hundredth about a hundredth. This is Zipf’s law, it holds in every language anyone has checked, and nobody has a fully satisfying explanation for why. Its practical consequence is enormous. The hundred commonest words account for around half of everything written in English and the top thousand for something like three quarters — which is why a learner with a thousand words can follow a conversation, and why the next thousand feel like so much less progress for the same effort. It is also why word games work at all. A puzzle drawn from common words is easy in a way that feels like cleverness; one drawn from the long tail is brutal; and the boundary between them is far sharper than the vocabulary sizes suggest. The second thing worth knowing is that English spelling is not irregular so much as archaeological. The silent letters in knight, through and debt are fossils — the k and gh were pronounced when the spelling was fixed, and the b in debt was inserted deliberately in the sixteenth century by scholars who wanted it to look more like the Latin debitum, despite the word having reached English through French with no b in it at all. About half of what looks like chaos is a sound change the spelling never caught up with, and much of the rest is somebody in the Renaissance improving things. That is a more useful model than irregularity, because fossils come in families, and once you can see the family a great many spellings stop being arbitrary.