Etymology Explorer

Mountain Dev

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Etymology Explorer is the word origin app you've been waiting your whole life for!

Features include:
• Visual map of word origins
• Connections between etymologically related words (e.g. acrobat and acronym)
• Etymology in full written form
• Word definition, translation, transliteration, language, and pronunciation
• Favorite words and connections to remember for later

I would love to hear your feedback on how to improve the app, so please let me know if there are any issues or what features you want next!

Ever wonder if the words album and albino are related? They are! Download the app and you'll find out how.

Ratings and reviews

This program started great and has only grown better over time: more languages, a word of the day, etc. I thoroughly enjoy it. UPDATED: recently this added a word of the day quiz, which sounds great but doesn't work. Every day at the same time of day I receive 10 notifications about the first WOTD quiz. If I visit the app and select that feature it shows me a quiz but gives neither a word nor the text for the 4 selections. Filed a bug but no response. After months of this, down to 4 stars.

Great app! Easy to use: I can glance at the word and its brief etymological description in my notification panel, and if I want to explore that word further, I can click to go to the app for more on that word than one could ever dream of (!), I can add it to a favorite list(!),search for other words, click to see the word(s) of the day, and ohhhhh, sooooo much more! (Read the About page!!) Yes, my friend, you can nerd out on words here in a fun and easy way!!! And Premium's just $10/year!!!

I just have a passing interest in etymology and this app is like the "thing" that I've been looking for my entire life to explore this topic the way I want to. I even bought the Premium version almost immediately because of how polished it is. Just being able to bounce and bump around the different words and their associations and see the visual links is very satisfying. Excellent work on this app ♥️

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