If you use DuckDuckGo, you can just type
!wt wordyouwant. This takes you to the English Wiktionary entry (EDIT: I forgot to mention this language depends on your DDG locale), where Wiktionary is a (really rich and underappreciated) sister project to Wikipedia that acts as an every-language-to-English dictionary (or e.g. an every-language-to-French dictionary in the case of fr.wiktionary.org, etc.)As an example of the first random word that came to mind: concentric
I use it often to look up the etymology of words.
A reminder to fellow Kagi users - you can do the same! (all DDG bangs are supported, but you probably knew that already)
I use
define:. Yesterday a friend asked me whether “stably” had an “e” in it and this was very helpful in answering.edit: My edit wasn’t relevant and my client confused me. Apologies to you.
if you have krunner installed, you can also look for the definition by typing
define wordyouwant
Title needs a word that doesn’t fit:
“Sorry to austere you”
Search engines are better at figuring out my misspellings than the android keyboard. Lots of random misspelled words in my search history.
I love it when the android keyboard tries to tell me a word is spelled wrong when it defiantly isn’t.
know what’s extra hard? those common words that are like a verb + a preposition like “find out”. i convince myself that the preposition i’m thinking of is wrong
Is it ironic that while reading this post I noticed that rule 5 spells “incite” wrong?
And porn. But yes, I do this a lot too and can absolutely relate.
porn noun
/pɔːn/
/pɔːrn/
[uncountable] (informal, disapproving)
pornography (= magazines, DVDs, websites, etc. that describe or show naked people and sexual acts in order to make people feel sexually excited, especially in a way that many other people find offensive)
I swear it’s only because I keep forgetting if step-sister has a hyphen in or not.
So I can get accurate results when I type it in pornhub.
(I actually just googled step-sister because I genuinely didn’t know if it has a hyphen. Apparently it is commonly written with and without the hyphen)
A lot of synonyms for me.
I’m more embarrassed about my calculator history. I use SpeedCrunch because it’s amazing, but boy does it remind me how stupid I am. 7+14, really?
I wonder how much power we’re wasting from people using LLMs to figure out typos
The amount of times I have to search how to spell “reccomending” is sad (for me)
Which reminds me how “commit” is right but “ammend” is wrong. I hate it.
Restaurant for me.
Honestly, this has almost become a compulsive thing when reading. Nonstop looking up words.
