About this site

A dictionary built from scratch: definitions are written by our editors, not copied from existing dictionaries. Every fact cites its source, and every entry carries a verification date.

How an entry is made

1. Facts first. Editors establish the part of speech, pronunciation, inflections and etymology from sources: public-domain dictionaries, published grammatical data and pronunciation dictionaries.
2. The definition. The wording is written from scratch from those facts alone. No language model sees another dictionary’s phrasing, so it cannot reproduce it by paraphrase.
3. N-gram check. An automated test compares the new text against a corpus of external definitions and blocks excessive phrase overlap.
4. Review. An editor checks the facts and the wording, and the result is recorded in the entry status and footer. Review is a stage of the editorial process and does not hold back an entry that already has its full set of layers and sources.

What we don’t do

• We do not copy or paraphrase definitions from other dictionaries.
• We do not use share-alike licensed content (CC BY-SA) in the core of the site, not even as quotations, because at scale the process cannot be kept clean.
• We do not index drafts. An entry in draft status is served with noindex and stays out of the sitemap, because it is missing template layers or sources.
• We never name a reviewer who does not exist. Until an entry is signed by a person, its footer credits the site editors and its structured data carries no reviewedBy field.

Current state

This site is a prototype: 21 entries written, the content pipeline works, and editorial review of the entries is under way.

Contact

Corrections and error reports are welcome by email. The contact address will be published at launch.