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We’ve been compiling a list of words that people use in the English language, and for each word that we add to the list, we write a few sentences about what it means. (A neat thing is that some of the words mean more than one thing.) </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">A cool feature about the list is that you can use this website to look up any word on the list on a whim, which is how most people use it after they encounter a word they don’t know, such as when talking to a smarter friend or reading a book (so that they can be the smarter friend). </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Another cool thing about the list is that we’ve ranked every single word! We figured the fairest and most logical way to rank the words was in alphabetical order. This way you can browse through the list from start to finish. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">At this point you may have realized that this all sounds like an </span><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/april-fools--day#editors-notes-section-0"><span style="font-weight: 400">April Fools’</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> joke, which it is, but everything we’ve said is true (which is the best kind of April Fools’ joke, or the least worst kind). Yes, the gag is that we just defined what a dictionary is as if it didn’t already exist, which is our way of reminding you how weird and awesome and kind of hilarious it is that dictionaries do exist. (A list of all words and what they mean? Lol who do we think we are, stewards of language?)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">We hope you’ve enjoyed this joke and our explanation of it (everyone has always reassuringly told us that the funniest kind of jokes are the ones that need to be explained). </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Now that you’re here, you might as well stay awhile where you know you’ll be safe from all the foolery and nonsense that’s happening everywhere else except this exact website, which you have to admit has a very straightforward and no-nonsense name. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400">Like we said, you can </span><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400">look up words o</span>ne at a time</a><span style="font-weight: 400">, or you can </span><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/list/a"><span style="font-weight: 400">start with the letter A</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400"> and browse your way through the dictionary, all the way to </span><a href="https://www.dictionary.com/list/z"><span style="font-weight: 400">the letter Z</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400">. 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