Vocabulary.com: The Dictionary

摘要

Vocabulary.com's Dictionary is a website offering word definitions, etymologies, usage examples, pronunciations and vocabulary quizzes to help users learn English words. The dictionary is a portion of a suite of pages/services of Vocabulary.com, but this review will cover exclusively the dictionary. The homepage is clean and blessedly unflashy in visual presentation, the typefaces are consistent and appropriate in size and readable; the information architecture is readily discoverable and user-friendly. The site's tagline is that it is the world's "fastest dictionary", a somewhat puzzling claim repeated on other pages. "Fastest" comes from the fact that the site uses some predictive algorithm to "guess" the word of interest as the user types, but the difference in this particular property from other online dictionaries is no doubt miniscule and hardly relevant.