# Word Goblin

> Swaps out words on websites with a dictionary of your choice to assist in language learning.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/word-goblin](https://chrome-stats.com/d/word-goblin)

## Overview

- **ID:** `word-goblin`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Word Goblin
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,language-support,social-communication
- **Version:** 1.6
- **Last updated:** 2020-06-17
- **First published:** 2019-03-10
- **Size:** 26 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/word-goblin/)
- **Website:** [https://word-goblin.web.app](https://word-goblin.web.app/)

## Description

Word Goblin is a Firefox add-on that swaps out words on websites with a dictionary of your choice to assist in language learning. It can be used on popular websites such as nytimes.com, news.ycombinator.com, medium.com, reddit.com, and forums.somethingawful.com. It specifically changes the initial comments visible on Reddit.

## Rankings

- #140,554 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `word-goblin.web.app`
- `forums.somethingawful.com`
- `www.reddit.com`
- `old.reddit.com`
- `news.ycombinator.com`
- `www.nytimes.com`
- `*.medium.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: web.app, somethingawful.com, reddit.com, ycombinator.com, nytimes.com, medium.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/word-goblin)