Find the word you meant — without writing
for you.
Wurding sits beside your draft and shows the neighborhood of any word — by meaning, by sound, by complexity, by type, by feeling. Select a word in your editor. Wurding opens. You stay in your draft.
add to Chrome— free, and quiet until you select a word.
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 in English sits at the centre of five different neighborhoods at once — its sense, its sound, its register, its kind, and the company it keeps. Wurding shows them all.
in meaning
semantic
Words close in sense, drawn by learned associations rather than a flat synonym list.
in feeling
evocative
Words that travel with this one in literary contexts: the image, the texture, the company it keeps.
in sound
phonetic
Rhymes, assonance, alliteration — for poets, lyricists, and prose writers with an ear.
in complexity
lexical
Neighbors at the same register and weight — matched on syllable count, frequency, and morphology. Keep your prose level when you swap a word.
in type
categorical
Words that name the same type of thing — taxonomic neighbors.
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 works in your browser — Google Docs, Substack, Medium, Notion, WordPress. Select a word. The neighborhood opens. The draft stays yours.
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.
Wurding is open.
The first public release is live in the Chrome Web Store. Install it once and it sits quietly in the corner of your browser until you select a word. No account. No telemetry. No prose written for you.
Editions for Firefox, Safari, and the desktop are in the workshop. In the meantime, read the journal — essays on writing — or write us a note.