Word Discoverer: Expand your vocabulary

Highlights rare English dictionary words and idioms on web pages. Facilitates English language learning and expands your vocabulary.

Word Discoverer: Expand your Vocabulary - Chrome Extension

Word Discoverer: Expand your vocabulary is a unique Chrome extension, designed to aid English language learners. While browsing the internet, users see highlighted rare words, idioms, and proverbs, and can learn their definition in the provided context. The extension is free, open-source and operates offline as well. Users have the ability to customize the extension's behavior by adjusting the highlighting frequency and exclude or include specific websites.

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Extension stats

By: aided reading

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.58

(128)

Version: 2.12.3 (Last updated: 2020-07-28)

Creation date: 2020-05-23

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage
contextMenus
tts
identity

Size: 745.47K

Email: me*****@yandex.ru

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 7,374 ▲ 63

Other rankings

#10453 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 133

#2 in expand keyword 35 ▼ 1

#82 in definition keyword 79 ▼ 4

#95 in fact keyword 27 ▼ 5

#153 in baby keyword 75 ▼ 3

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

Very useful for expanding vocabulary and identifying key words while skimming texts.
Simple and easy to use interface that meets user needs.
Helpful tool for teaching English
Free to use, making it accessible for everyone.

Cons

Not functioning properly for some users, with issues like not highlighting any words.
Lack of cross-device synchronization, which is frustrating for users who work on multiple computers.
Inconsistent word highlighting, with common words being highlighted instead of rare ones.
No option to exclude certain websites, causing issues with website compatibility.

Most mentioned

Request for the ability to exclude certain websites from highlighting.
Need for cross-device synchronization or account creation for saving words.
Desire for improvements in highlighting criteria, focusing on more difficult words.

User reviews

Very useful, and by highlighting rare words it actually helps locate key words when skimming. But it needs a feature to be able to exclude some websites, because it seems to be messing up with some websites' night mode e.g. reddit, google colab etc.

方枪枪, 2025-02-13

This is used to be most useful extension on google chrome...but is not working anymore.. Not highlighting any words...?

Alap Sheth, 2024-08-29

好用且免费，不多说了

shen tu, 2024-07-16

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Word Discoverer: Expand your vocabulary requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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