ngram viewer

The changes in popularity of the words over the last centuries

Ngram Viewer: A Chrome Extension for Word Popularity Trends

'Ngram Viewer' is a Chrome extension facilitating the exploration of words and phrase usage trends spanning centuries, according to Google's Ngram data. It's an ideal tool for linguists, learners, and everyone intrigued by language evolution. The extension connects the user directly to Google Ngram Viewer for real-time usage analysis of entered words or phrases. It provides visual graphs depicting the ups and downs in word popularity from 1500 or 1800 onwards.

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By: partaab.com

Users: 2,000+

Rating: 4.33

(6)

Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2015-03-28)

Creation date: 2015-03-27

Risk impact: High risk impact

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Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

*://*.ajax.googleapis.com/
*://*.books.google.com/

Size: 105.47K

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# 20,555 ▲ 231

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#2046 in Accessibility

#63 in purpose keyword 2 ▲ 5

#73 in graph keyword 7 ▼ 7

#121 in viewer keyword 69 ▲ 7

#156 in publish keyword 2 ▼ 6

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Extension summary

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What's new in version 1.1: *Now you can compare phrases by separating them with comma *Beginning year can be set to 1500 or 1800 *An unnecessary permission was removed *Better code under the hood

I couldn't believe something similar to this hasn't been made already. Not even by Google (the owner of data). So I made this for my personal use; thought somebody else might find it useful so I shared it. You are more than welcome to contribute by suggesting code, sending feedback and etc.

This tool does not require any special permissions or something like that. No data would be collected from you by the extension. Use it freely.

The code could not be any simpler than this. What this tool does is just connecting you to "Google Ngram Viewer", which is a tool to see how the use of the given word has increased or decreased in the past. As someone who speaks English as the second language, my personal purpose of using Ngrams has been checking the new words I'm learning. Sometimes words become obsolete rapidly; in such cases, to have a better word choice it's better to use a Synonym.

The shortcut key of the tool is Alt+N. When you opened it, type in the word (you can also type word combinations and names) then press Enter.

User reviews

It’s okay and handy, but a show stopper for me is that it doesn’t “unfold” requests containing asterisks, as in “hello *_NOUN”. The original website would show all nouns that could be in place, along with their popularity dynamics.