Wordnik


 * Wordnik is billions of words, 971,860,842 example sentences, 6,925,967 unique words, 231,628 comments, 178,718 tags, 121,432 pronunciations, 77,736 favorites and 1,022,649 words in 32,703 lists created by 81,138 Wordniks.

What is Wordnik?

 * Wordnik.com is an online dictionary and language resource that provides dictionary and thesauras content, some of it based on print dictionaries such as the Central dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, Wordnet, and GCIDE. 
 * Wordnik has collected a corpse of billions of words which it uses to display example sentences, allowing it to provide information on a much larger set of words than a typical dictionary.

History

 * Wordnik.com was launched as a closed beta in March 2009 and opened to all comers in June 2009.
 * Co-founders of the site are CEO Erin McKean, editorial director Grant Barrett , and chief computational lexicographer Orion Montoya. McKean, Barrett, and Montoya all formerly worked in the US Dictionaries Department of Oxford University Press.