One word in · every word near it
Find every word related to a word.
Synonyms, opposites, broader and narrower words, split by noun, verb and adjective.
Word history
What comes back
One word in, and everything the lexicon keeps near it.
Similar
Words that mean the same, kinds of it, what it is a kind of, and what a brand around it reaches for
Opposites
The other end of the same idea
Word family
The same word in its other forms
Noun, verb, adjective, adverb
A word is usually several words wearing one spelling.
“Light” is four words. As a noun it is illumination, radiance, a lamp; as a verb it is to ignite, to kindle; as an adjective it is weightless, faint, pale; as an adverb it means with few burdens. One list holding all of that would be a list of coincidences.
So the answer is split, and the switch above the lists moves between the parts of speech the word actually has — with the number of words behind each, and a line saying which meaning it usually is. The map follows the switch, so the picture and the lists are always answering the same question.
What it is for
The word you wanted is taken
It always is. Its synonyms usually are not, and neither are the words half a step out from them — the ones you would not have thought of unless something listed them.
You need a word that means almost this
The Similar list runs from the closest words outward: what it means, then kinds of it, then what it is a kind of. Espresso is a picture; beverage is a category. Which one a name wants depends on how much room the business needs to grow into.
You want the opposite on purpose
A lot of good names are the antonym of the category they sit in — the calm app in a loud market, the slow food in a fast one. Opposites are their own list here for that reason.
You are still deciding what to call it
Every word on this page carries an arrow that hands it to the domain generator, which builds names from it and checks each one as it goes. Reading and searching are one motion.
Questions
Where do these words come from?
The Open English Wordnet, the actively maintained fork of Princeton's WordNet, plus a hand-curated naming list of our own. WordNet groups words into sets that mean the same thing and links those sets into a hierarchy, which is what lets this page tell a synonym from a kind of the word from the thing it is a kind of. The curated list is the one that knows a brand built on 'orbit' might want satellite, lunar or telemetry — associations a dictionary has no reason to record.
Why does the noun tab show different words from the verb tab?
Because they are different words that happen to be spelled the same. 'Book' as a noun is a volume, a ledger, a script; as a verb it is to reserve, to hold, to schedule. A thesaurus that ran the two together would answer a question nobody asked. The row shows only the parts of speech the word actually has, each with the number of words behind it, so a word that is only ever a noun gets one tab rather than three empty ones.
What order is the Similar list in?
Closest first, then outward. It opens with words that mean the same thing, then kinds of the word (espresso and cappuccino under coffee), then what the word is itself a kind of (beverage, drink), and finally the associations from our own naming list. Both directions of that hierarchy are useful when naming: the specific end gives you words with a picture attached, and the general end gives you words a whole category could stand on. For adjectives WordNet has no hierarchy, so the middle of the list is the shades of the word instead — airy and buoyant under light.
What is the map for?
It shows one thing the lists cannot: what the related words are related to. Every word around the middle is one step from your word, and around each of those sits what it in turn is near, so you can see where a word sits rather than only what sits beside it. Drag to turn it, click any word to grow the map from that word instead, and it follows whichever part of speech the switch is on.
I typed a name and got nothing.
Then it is a name rather than a word, which is usually what you want from a brand. This page only knows English dictionary words. If what you typed was a real word with a letter too many, the near-misses are offered under the message; otherwise the generator is the tool that takes made-up names and the search is the one that tells you which extensions are free.
Can I use this to find a domain name?
That is what it is here for. Every word carries an arrow that hands it to the domain generator, which builds brandable names from it and checks each one for availability as it goes. Working outward from a word you like — to its synonyms, then to what those are near — is how most short, available names get found: the obvious word is taken, and the word next to it is not.
Word data from the Open English Wordnet, licensed CC BY 4.0, with a naming vocabulary of our own on top.
Found a word worth building on? The domain generator turns it into brandable names and checks each one, and domain search checks the word itself across every extension at once.