Wolfram Words Reference App app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Wolfram Group LLC
First release : 30 Sep 2011
App size: 12.07 Mb
The Wolfram Words Reference App is more than just a dictionary! From synonyms and acronyms to information about words through history and tools for solving word puzzles, it includes easy access to everything youve ever wanted to know about English words.
- Find the common definition of a word as well as its pronunciation, first known use, origin, inflected forms, and general usage
- Find synonyms, acronyms, rhymes, and homophones
- Calculate popular word game scores and find possible words using your letters
- Compute word patterns given only a few letters or compute words that begin or end with certain letters
- Get historical crossword puzzle clues or enter specific letters to find word possibilities
- Perform document length and time conversions given a number of words, pages, or characters
- Convert a sentence into Morse code or Braille and look up Soundex codes
- Generate a QR code or barcode from a word or phrase
- Find notable uses of a word in a city, book, movie, and other names or explore a words frequency throughout history
Our database is a work in progress, so check back to see if information about the word you entered is added.
The Wolfram Words Reference App is powered by the Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine and is created by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica—the worlds leading software system for mathematical research and education.
The Wolfram Words Reference App draws on the computational power of Wolfram|Alphas supercomputers over a 3G, 4G, or Wi-Fi connection.
Latest reviews of Wolfram Words Reference App app for iPhone and iPad
"The Words iPhone app misrepresents itself as being in English only. Because Im in France its only giving me French output in many areas: homophones, scrabble words, ... This is all despite my input words, UI and keyboard being English . There are no settings that allow me to change W|As incorrect inference that I want French output!"
Despite the fact that Stephen Wolfram is British, the app is heavily focused on American English. Although it will provide a definition for colour as well as color, it cant find words rhyming with colour! It would be very helpful if you could select British English as the preferred option. Otherwise, its delivers lots of useful information for writers including notable uses of words, anagrams and crossword clues, acronyms, words "beginning with", or "ending in" which is really useful if, for example, you want to find all words ending in "mount" or any other word ending. The app isnt orientation sensitive so it doesnt rotate if you rotate your iOS device. On the iPhone, it only works in portrait mode. Whats hard to understand is why its the opposite on the iPad, where it ONLY works in landscape mode! For these reasons it loses two stars.
Wolfram Alpha should be embarrassed to have their name on this half-baked app. When it works, its surprisingly unhelpful. When it doesnt work, the error messages (or lack thereof) are confusing. I try it periodically (naively) and its 50-50 whether it will even return an answer for something simple like finding words containing "qu".
Poorly designed, poorly executed, and incredibly shallow information. Got fooled by the Wolfram name.
- doesnt work offline - cant preset all search categories - not user-friendly - no bookmarks or favorites - no correction while typing in a word - no instant search, you really have to tap "Enter" button, so out-of-date