Shortcomings

Rewordify.com is just one more tool in your learning toolbox. Keep these things in mind as you use the site.

We reduce written beauty

When we rewordify difficult text, it makes it easier to read--but it also takes some of the beauty out of the original words. For example, take this original sentence:

The three sisters got along harmoniously.

Our site changes that sentence to:

The three sisters got along well.

Yes, it's easier to read, but it loses the word harmoniously, which comes from the word harmony, a musical term for different notes that sound nice when they're played together. The word harmonious is a richer, more beautiful, more musical word than the word well.

So, although this site is helpful, remember to use other techniques to improve your reading. Keep asking good readers what words mean. Keep looking up words in dictionaries to find out their deeper, more beautiful meanings.

The problem of translation

Most words have more than one meaning. Take the word fast. Somebody can run fast, which means they can run quickly. But somone can be fast asleep, which means completely asleep. And there are other words, like conservative, which can mean lots of different things.

Hmm.

So, it can be very difficult to simplify some words. Our computers might choose to leave a word alone, or it might try to simplify it but not do a good job. If you see us rewordify something in a weird way that doesn't make sense, please tell us, so we can make our site better.

What can't Rewordify.com do?

Our computers know how to simplify a huge number of words and phrases and help you read many things, but they don't have brains. They cannot:

• break down long, complicated, hard-to-follow sentences into a bunch of easier ones.
• fix poorly written, confusing sentences.
• summarize paragraphs or tell you what the main ideas are.
• analyze thesis statements, writing quality, or any other detailed language analysis. Only people can do that.

What won't Rewordify.com do?

Our mission is to make general-interest reading more understandable by replacing huge numbers of words and short phrases with easier versions. But, we are not an encyclopedia. We don't have the ability to give detailed explanations of millions of medical, legal, and scientific terms.

Concepts like political conservatism, the Renaissance, halogenation reactions, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Kuiper belt can't be explained in a few short words. Also, a huge number of English words are rarely used, like amphilogistic and nychthemeron. To keep our site working fast, we skip those rare words.

Don't be a cheater

If you take something from the Internet, rewordify it, and turn that in to a teacher, you're going to get caught. Our computers are brainless robots that are following a brainless computer program. They have no idea what they're reading, and they have no way to tell if what they wrote sounds right or not.

Chances are good that what they write won't sound quite right, sort of like a piano with a few strings out of tune. If you turn it in, it's likely that your teacher will spot the computer-generated rewordings in a second. So, use our site to help you learn, not help you be a plagiarizer