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24 alternatives to Dendril

Visual thesaurus and etymology explorer

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    I began this in late September purely on the whims of frustration with thesaurus.com, which does not bother to focus the input box! So I made my own site that focuses the input box. And because I wanted a thesaurus where I could type just the term in the address bar (eg type carefulwords.com/word) to get my results. It is very rough around the edges right now. There are far too many synonyms, which themselves are only organized alphabetically. I hope to take the site in a more inspiring direction over time than merely synonyms. Perhaps euphemisms, or other poetic uses from the past, or…

    2022 · carefulwords.com · its alternatives →

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    Find the right words.

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    A thesaurus and translate app for Mac & iOS.

    2018 · wordprobe.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4IM

    Just a fun toy I wanted to make. I've been studying and playing around with language models lately and have always been intrigued by how words are processed by these models. Since the vectors generated by embedding models is in very high dimensional space, I thought it would be cool to reduce them to 3D vectors and visualise them myself. This is what I have so far!

    2023 · seesaurus.com · its alternatives →

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    Wordie▲87

    Grow your vocabulary while you browse the web

    Apr 2026 · wordie.app · its alternatives →

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    Look up words by their description easily

    2022 · phraisely.com · its alternatives →

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    The AI-powered vocabulary learning experience

    2024 · rootvocab.com · its alternatives →

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    Play with your words. Language learning simplified.

    2015 · planblabs.net · its alternatives →

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    Multilingual translations at your fingertips!

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An extension of Nouns DAO building the 'Red Bull of Web3'

    2022 · gnars.com · its alternatives →

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    Lexios▲76

    Learn vocabulary effortlessy while browsing the web

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Look up articles of German nouns really fast 🇩🇪

    2020 · matetranslate.com · its alternatives →

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    Interactive visualization of Wiktionary words and etymologies. - zifeo/Etymap

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Climb▲80

    Browser extension to define words and learn with GIFs

    2021 · climb.app.link · its alternatives →

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    Medieval word of the day with widgets

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple thesaurus extension for Chrome

    2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Learn new words as you surf the web

    2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Map etymology

    2024 · haker88.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A simple notepad for the words which you learned.

    2017 · keepwords.com · its alternatives →

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    Explore word meaning, similarity & semantic networks

    Feb 2026 · freesmartphoneapps.com · its alternatives →

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    Obsidian plugin for looking up the etymology of words in your notes with one click - clairefro/obsidian-plugin-etymology-lookup

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Words explained like a human would

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Your favorite dinosaur themed thesaurus

    2025 · thesaurusonline.org · its alternatives →

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