Word Of The Day!

Displays one new vocabulary word each day, it's definition and an example sentence from around the web.

Word Of The Day! - A Chrome Extension for Learning New Vocabulary

"Word Of The Day!" is a handy Chrome extension designed to enhance your vocabulary skills. Every day, it introduces users to a new word, accompanied by its definition and 1-2 example sentences pulled from various sources on the web. The extension does not update over weekends. It's gone through several versions, with improvements made to UI, font, color choices, data handling and fixed issues like spacing and broken links.
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Extension stats

Users: 4,000+
Rating: 4.00
(19)
Version: 1.5.1 (Last updated: 2014-09-04)
Creation date: 2014-09-04
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://api.wordnik.com/
Size: 79.78K

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Word of the Day! (v1.0)
4.41 (886) 204,593+
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Extension summary

Word Of The Day! displays one new vocabulary word each day and it's definition, along with 1-2 example sentences from around the web.

Note: Vocabulary words do not update over the weekend.

v 1.2 changes: minor bug fixes, font and color updates. v 1.3 changes: design/UI updates. v 1.4 changes: fixed word spacing and broken links. v 1.5 changes: Updated data handling

Please comment with feature/improvement suggestions! :-)

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Educational and fun
  • Easy to use and intuitive
  • Great user experience
  • Multiple accounts support
  • Encourages learning new words
Cons
  • Cannot view a history of learned words
  • Limited to one word per day
  • No pronunciation button
  • Issues with functionality for some users
  • No option to change the time of day for new words
Most mentioned
  • Desire for a list of learned words
  • Request for multiple words per day
  • Interest in a pronunciation feature
User reviews
been using this across multiple accounts my grandson loves it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Madeleine Meyers, 2022-07-29

It would be even better if you could see a list of all the words you've seen on the extension so far! So far great though!
by jbota, 2020-07-23

Great job but can you please put at least 3 in a day it would easy to gain more knowledge quickly....
by Sara Richard, 2020-03-19
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Word Of The Day! requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Word Of The Day! has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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