Wordroot
Look up a word and follow it back to its root
Details
- External ID
- 1247226
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Wordroot
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Education
- Fetched at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 17, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
Description
A dictionary that shows where words come from. Clean definitions plus the full etymology chain, Old English to Latin to Proto-Indo-European. Free on web, iPhone and Mac.
Enrichment
- Theme
- plant care and agriculture tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- etymology dictionary for language learners
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A simple dictionary and etymology viewer can be built by wrapping public etymological databases (like Wiktionary or Etymonline dumps) into a cross-platform React Native or web app.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 55 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 56 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 309 days after the earliest competitor.
- Dual Dictionary · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- WordPopup · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Elseword · ph · 2026-09-18 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Tree, truth, druid and tar share one Proto-Indo-European root · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- WordSetu · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Easymigo Word of the Day · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Wordy · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- WordDream · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.