Find the word you meant — without writing for you.
Wurding sits beside your draft and shows the neighborhood of any word — by meaning, by complexity, by type, by feeling, by sound.
add to Google Chrome— free, for the writing you do in your browser.
download for Windows— free, for the writing you do everywhere else. In beta.
One word, five neighborhoods.
A flat list of synonyms is the failure mode every writer knows. You look up grief and get sorrow, sadness, bereavement. You wanted woe. You wanted pang. You wanted harbor at dusk. The five-axis panel finds it.
The five axes.
Every word sits inside five different neighborhoods at once: how it means, what kind of thing it names, what feeling it carries, how plain or ornate it reads, and how it sounds. Wurding shows you all five, and you can switch any of them off.
in meaning
semantic
Words close in sense — pulled from learned associations, not a fixed synonym list.
in type
categorical
Words naming the same kind of thing — taxonomic neighbors, not just similar-sounding.
in feeling
evocative
Words carrying a similar emotional charge — matched by tone, not just by topic.
in complexity
readability
Neighbors pitched at the same register — matched on syllable count, frequency, and morphology. Swap one in without changing the level of the sentence around it.
in sound
phonetic
Rhymes and near-rhymes, words that echo this one's rhythm — for poets, lyricists, and prose writers with an ear.
Free, and the full book.
The free plan is not a trial. It has no time limit and stays free: a working vocabulary of the words writers reach for most often, up to six neighbors on each of the five axes, definitions with usage examples on any word, each word's age when known, and every one of the privacy commitments Wurding makes.
Pro is the same tool with the abridgement removed — the full book, more than double the words, including the ones that don't come up every day, and up to fifteen neighbors per axis instead of six. It adds a list of kept favorites that stay marked wherever they reappear.
$7 a month, or $60 a year — $5 a month. Stop whenever. See what each plan holds.
A word is not one word.
Fast the adjective means quick. Fast the verb means to go without food. They are not near neighbors of each other and no single list can serve them both — which is why a thesaurus hands you one flat pile and leaves the sorting to you.
Wurding keeps them apart. Beside the word you looked up is its part of speech, and beside that, every other sense it holds. Click one and the whole neighborhood changes to match: run the verb keeps different company than run the noun. One lookup, four sets of neighbors, no untangling.
What you can do with a word.
Click any word in the results and a small menu opens beside it.
copy
every plan
Straight to your clipboard, ready for the sentence that wanted it.
lookup
every plan
Open that word's own neighborhood and keep going. The words you pass through stay listed at the foot of the panel, so coming back is one click.
define
every plan
Its definitions, each with a usage example — so you can tell whether it is the word you meant before you commit to it.
favorite
Pro
Save a word to a list of your own, and it stays marked wherever it turns up again.
What Wurding is, and isn't.
Wurding is the writing companion that finds the word you meant, in your own voice, without writing for you. It is not a thesaurus. It is not a writing assistant. It is not an AI tool. The category it claims is the writer's reference companion — the small stack of working books on every serious writer's desk, made software at last.
It speaks your English. Set your locale once and Wurding stays there — search painting in US English and the neighbors include coloring; search coloring and you'll find colorize, not colourise. Your spelling is the spelling.
Nothing leaves your machine.
Not a promise — a fact of how it's built. The dictionary is a file on your own computer and the engine that reads it runs on your computer alone. There is no server in the path of a lookup, so there is nothing to promise not to log.
no account
to install, or to use
Install it and start looking words up — there is no sign-up step and nothing to verify. An account exists only if using the Pro version.
no telemetry
none, not anonymised
No metrics, no analytics, no event stream. The words you look up are seen by nobody but you.
works offline
on a plane, wifi off
Looking a word up never touches the internet. Everything it needs already shipped with it.
nothing written for you
ever
No generated prose, no suggested rewrites, no button that finishes your paragraph. A reference book doesn't do that, and neither does this.
The long version, including the two small things our server does do, is on the privacy page.
Wurding is open.
Live in the Chrome Web Store, and in beta for Windows. Install it once and it waits quietly out of the way until you want a word.
download for Windows— out in beta.
Firefox and Safari editions are still in the workshop. In the meantime, read the journal — essays on writing — or write us a note.