Resources: Dictionaries and Etymologies
Merriam-Webster abridged https://www.merriam-webster.com/ Free and essential.
Merriam-Webster unabridged https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/ Requires subscription.
New Oxford American Dictionary https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195392883.001.0001/acref-9780195392883 Requires subscription. CAUTION: The “Search within work” function (on the lower left of the page linked above, under the sign-in form) may not return accurate results.
Collins Online English Dictionary https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/ Oxford English Dictionary https://www.oed.com/ American Heritage Dictionary https://ahdictionary.com/
Merriam-Webster SCRABBLE® Dictionaryhttps://scrabble.merriam.com/
Online Etymology Dictionayhttps://www.etymonline.com/
Language Hathttps://languagehat.com/
World Wide Wordshttps://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
Google Trendshttps://trends.google.com/trends/
Google Books Ngram Viewerhttps://books.google.com/ngrams/
Corpus of Contemporary American Englishhttps://www.english-corpora.org/coca/
Visual Thesaurushttps://www.visualthesaurus.com/
Merriam-Webster unabridged https://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/ Requires subscription.
New Oxford American Dictionary https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195392883.001.0001/acref-9780195392883 Requires subscription. CAUTION: The “Search within work” function (on the lower left of the page linked above, under the sign-in form) may not return accurate results.
Collins Online English Dictionary https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/ Oxford English Dictionary https://www.oed.com/ American Heritage Dictionary https://ahdictionary.com/
Merriam-Webster SCRABBLE® Dictionaryhttps://scrabble.merriam.com/
Online Etymology Dictionayhttps://www.etymonline.com/
Language Hathttps://languagehat.com/
World Wide Wordshttps://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
Google Trendshttps://trends.google.com/trends/
Google Books Ngram Viewerhttps://books.google.com/ngrams/
Corpus of Contemporary American Englishhttps://www.english-corpora.org/coca/
Visual Thesaurushttps://www.visualthesaurus.com/
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