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  1. need a bookmarklet

    need a bookmarklet to see a preview and put selected word in favorites words pool

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  2. I'd like to be able to see MY favorited words.

    I like that I can favorite words. I keep a list of words I like so I will use them and thereby increase my vocabulary. It would be nice if wordnik could replace this list for me.

    Perhaps a link to "My Favorite Words".

    Love the site. Found at TED.

    3 votes
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  3. I looked up grommet. In surfer's language it's a young inexperienced surfer.

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  4. Enable clicking on a word in the definition to browse that word

    This would be particularly useful for similar scientific words, where a more obscure spelling has no definition yet.

    8 votes
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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    That’s a great idea — we’d love to be able to do this. We may make it a more generalizable function in the browser, though.

  5. offer OS X widget (and windows gadget)

    offer desktop widgets/gadgets much like the dictionary/thesaurus in OS X, of which there is also a Wikipedia version as well as one for Wolfram Alpha ......

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  6. Add a stronger suggestion engine for misspelled words.

    When a user types a word that you don't recognise, you should present a them with some suggestions for similar words. You could base this on soundex, or you could drive it through the google engine.

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  7. Pronunciations mouseover does not working properly

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  8. don't use someone's twitter handle when searching for real time uses of word. See: deipnosophist

    You search for uses of words on twitter. But you should ignore the twitter handles people use. The often use words. As a result, you won't see uses of the word, just tweets by the person who has the word as his handle.

    see
    http://www.wordnik.com/words/deipnosophist
    for an example.

    7 votes
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  9. Include search suggestions drop-down in the search field

    Would love a list of search suggestions that drop down in the search field. It would do wonders for avoiding misspelled words, and could also encourage serendipity.

    This could also be supplemented with search suggestions on the result page if a word is mistyped (like if I were to search for 'kitteb' instead of 'kitten').

    9 votes
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  10. deal with simple misspelligns!

    Needs to be able to deal with smpile typing errors, and also words where there is no standard spelling; didgeridoo, baliganjur

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  11. what about pics

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  12. Move "Looking for this?" to a more prominent location when a word isn't found

    For example, I searched for a word, but got the spelling wrong. Initially I didn't notice the "Looking for this?" area on the right hand side, so I went to Google instead to look for the right spelling...

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  13. Word of the Day

    Please add word of the day to your excellent site.

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  14. bug: twitter post times showing up as "##### nulls ago".

    In the live twitter feed, instead of saying it was posted "13 seconds ago' or whatever, I'm seeing, "-20933 nulls ago"

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  15. Provide more detailed stats (e.g., geographic distribution), also info on the source of the stats

    The stats display is a little lacking. It's hard to really make anything of it at the size, and it would be nice to get a more complete picture, like showing usage trends by geographic region. It would especially be nice to know at least an overview of how the stats are generated.

    10 votes
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  16. List popular/recent searches

    Would be interesting to see a list of the top 10 most popular word searches or recent popular searches. Eventually it would be awesome to do something like http://labs.digg.com/ where you can watch in real-time the searches people are making, etc.

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  17. Both first and last names when a name is the word looked up

    When looking up a word that is a first or last name the definition does not supply the other part of the name. If I look up Joachim, I see a Hungarian violinist but I don't know the last name of this person.

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  18. verify the 1985-2005 gap in word frequency charts.

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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    Yes — we don’t have a ton of data in that timeframe, so the graphs are not as accurate as they could be. We’re pushing a bunch of new data from that range into the system very soon, though, so please look for updated graphs soon!

  19. Search Capabilities

    Enable advanced search functionality, including 'begins with' or 'contains' , 'phonetic spelling'

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  20. Make etymologies more accessable

    I love etymologies. I'm not a complete language geek, but I do appreciate the clarification they can provide in understanding how words came to mean what they do. I think everyone can benefit by studying etymologies. Unfortunately, etymological syntax is gibberish. But perhaps a machine parsable syntax that can be reformatted for better mainstream elucidation and linguistic enrichment?

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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    This is a really good point — most etymologies right now are written for conciseness, not narrative flow. We’ll see what we can do!

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