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Reverse Dictionary

Describe a concept and get back a list of words

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For those who enjoyed this tool, I'm pleased to announce that a new version is out today. It has much greater coverage of concepts, better precision for short and long queries, a half dozen "live" filtering options, on-page definitions, and an improved layout that doesn't look quite so awful on mobile devices.

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I'm excited to see the interest here. The reverse dictionary is a project of mine from nearly 12 years ago. I haven't updated it much since then other than to add the two most commonly requested features: part-of-speech filtering and an API. Sergei, I agree that the search quality can use some work. It's a deceptively hard problem. In contrast to Web … See more
Zack Kanter
@zackkanter · Co-founder & CEO, Stedi
First heard about this from an @jason Calacanis post: http://www.launch.co/blog/how-to... I've used it a bunch of times since then - really helpful for naming.
BTW, regarding stealing "SQ dudes" from Google: The Google search quality team (which includes more than "dudes", thankfully) has made great strides in serving dictionary-oriented queries the past few years. It's only a matter of time before they capture "reverse" search as well. (Indeed, some of the kinds of queries that the reverse dictionary gets can a… See more
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Justin Mitchell
@itsthisjustin · Designing Products at Sofriendly.com
I use this tool constantly for naming products, coming up with synonyms or better ways to describe things in copy, and the list goes on and on. Invaluable tool
Steve Young
@stevepyoung · Founder @ AppMasters.co
I use this all the time for App Store Optimization as well. =) Great hunt!