Wordroot
Word origins, traced
$0.99
Wordroot is a dictionary that shows you where words come from.
Look up any English word and get clean definitions plus the full etymology chain — Middle English, Old English, Latin, Ancient Greek, Proto-Germanic, all the way back to Proto-Indo-European where the trail exists.
• Fast search with definitions grouped by part of speech
• Etymology chain showing each ancestor, its language, and how the word arrived (inherited, derived, or borrowed)
• A word of the day to start from
• No ads, no accounts, no tracking
Definitions and etymologies come from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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A new icon and a cleaner look. Wordroot now runs on iOS 17 and later.
The developer, Joshua Trommel, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Joshua Trommel
- Size
- 883.7 KB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
- Copyright
- © 2026 Joshua Trommel
