Rewordify.com makes it easy for you to get more viewers on your blog or web site.
All you do is add one little link to your article or online content, and viewers instantly see a simplified version of your content. It's quick and completely free, and it makes your content accessible to millions of readers who might be intimidated by the hard language on your site.
We just published a fun vocabulary game called Rewordo.
It's the hardest vocabulary game on the Internet, and it's going through the roof in popularity.
Rewordo pits you against our Rewordifying Engine, which knows over 35,000 of the most difficult words and phrases in English. You're faced with 20 hard words and phrases, one at a time. For each hard word or phrase, you have to pick the closest meaning from four choices. The object of the game is to get as many questions correct as quickly as possible.
You start with 1000 points. You lose 10 points for each second that goes by, and 50 points for each wrong answer. It's very difficult to get over 500 points, and anything over 250 points is impressive.
We just introduced a great new feature: flash cards!
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Whenever you rewordify a text passage that has between 1 and 100 hard words and phrases, you'll see a button that says "Get flash cards." Click it and you'll be taken to a fast, easy to use set of flash cards. Here's what they look like:
The cards show the hard word and definition at once by default. Uncheck "Two sided cards" to see the "front" and "back" of the card. Click the card to "flip" it.
When you uncheck "Two sided cards" you'll see another checkbox that lets you choose whether you see the term or definition first as you move through the stack of cards. Choose whichever option helps you learn best.
If you know a term, click "Remove card" so you focus your mental efforts on what you don't know.
When you think you know all the cards, click the "Take a quiz!" button to see how well you know them.
The Flash Cards feature works well on any computer, tablet, or smartphone. Here's a video that shows how it works:
We just produced two great print ads. Click on the pictures to download the .PDF
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It works by "rewording" (simplifying) hard words and phrases into easy ones.
When you start using it, the easier words are highlighted. Hover the mouse (or tap, for tablets) over the easier word to see the original hard word.
You can change the site so it only highlights the hard words but doesn't reword them. Mouse-hover (or tap) over the highlighting to see the easier word.
You can make lots of other changes to how the site works to match the reader's learning style and personal preference.
It works on most web pages or any text you type or copy-paste in.
There's a great selection of classic literature that you can choose from to get started.
Rewordify.com is a great new way to understand more of what you read, but you should see it as another tool on your toolbelt rather than a magical way to help you understand every single thing you read (because it can't do that).
Here are some advantages and disadvantages to using Rewordify.com versus dictionaries.
Rewordify.com
Advantages:
Very fast: long, complex text is greatly simplified within a second or two (exact speed may vary)
Parts of speech and verb tenses maintained: Rewordify.com attempts to replace adjectives with adjectives, nouns with nouns, past tense verbs with past tense verbs, etc.
Phrases are simplified: Rewordify.com looks for huge numbers of short expressions and phrases and simplifies them
Context-based translation: Rewordify.com attempts to simplify words based on how they're used in a sentence
User-adjustable: you can customize the way the site works to fit your learning style
Sentence structure: original authors' sentence and paragraph structure is not changed, to help familiarize you with different writing styles
Disadvantages:
Limited reference source: Rewordify.com does not explain or translate huge numbers of medical, legal, philosophical, political, artistic, and science terms, historical events, and so on. If a term can't be easily explained or reworded into a small number of words, it's left alone.
Possible strange output: Rewordify.com may reword difficult language into expressions that are strangely-worded and unclear. (This is the case with all computer-based translation.)
Oversimplification: In an effort to be simple, Rewordify.com can strip out some of the beauty and shades of meaning within language.
Dictionaries
Advantages:
Excellent reference source: Dictionaries can define or explain almost every word in English
Detailed word information: Dictionaries provide word origins, pronunciation guides, other forms of words, synonyms, and lots of other information
Disadvantages
Time consuming to use: You must look up words one at a time
Confusing definitions: Dictionaries often define difficult words with difficult words, and define words in terms of themselves
Misleading definitions: When you look up a form of a word (like combatively), dictionaries almost always return the definition of the root of the word (like combative), which can be confusing. For example, this might make you think that the following sentence is OK: "The angry student was usually combatively every morning."
Summary
If you want a fast way to make language simpler, use Rewordify.com. If you want more detailed knowledge about words, use a dictionary. They're both important tools to help you become a better reader!
Rewordify.com makes it easier for you to read by "rewording" (or simplifying) a huge number of English words and phrases.
Put in a web URL or copy-paste some text, and you almost instantly get a simplified version.
Rewordify.com can help you understand more, but it can't explain absolutely everything. There are lots of words and terms that can't be simplified easily, so you still have to read and learn. For example, how could you simplify the term World War II into a few words?
Rewordify.com is a computer program, not a human brain. It can only reword words and short phrases into simple ones. It can't change around whole sentences, explain to you what things really mean, fix bad spelling and grammar, or take the place of a teacher.
The site is like a ladder; it helps you reach higher things, but you still have to climb the ladder and reach.
