Is there a good app for look up word definitions?
Fully Served: few or no apps serve this today, yet 1 mined data points show people want it done. Good apps already cover what people want. You'd need a strong wedge.
Data refreshed July 20, 2026 · scores recompute weekly as new reviews are mined, so re-check before you build.
What users complain about
The most common complaints behind apps that try to look up word definitions, mined and clustered from real reviews:
| Complaint area | Type | Mentions | What a user said |
|---|---|---|---|
| tells you to look it up on Google | ux | 1 | it would keep telling me to look it up on google |
Should you build it?
Good apps already cover what people want. You'd need a strong wedge. Opportunity here scores 3 out of 100 — a function of demand, how crowded the field is, and how badly the existing apps perform. Use the live map to compare it against adjacent tasks.
Who has tried building this
6 attempts, mixed active/stale, led by a 70-star CLI; commodity problem with modest, scattered interest.
| Project | Status | Stars | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| HighnessAtharva/VocabCLI | active | 70 | Python |
| j-raghavan/sn-dictionary | active | 14 | TypeScript |
| ruslanlap/CmdPal-Definition | active | 5 | C# |
| yucombinator/WordLookup | stale | 5 | Java |
| mustafashabib/dictionaryLookupFFExtension | abandoned | 3 | JavaScript |
| AbhishekVel/WordLookUp | stale | 2 | Java |
Open-source projects that attempted this task — active ones show today's bar; abandoned ones are a signal to validate why earlier attempts died.
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