WordLens Dictionary (Offline)

Offline English dictionary. Works without a network connection. No analytics. No data sent to any server during normal use.

WordLens is a zero-friction English dictionary that works fully offline. Select a word on any webpage to get an instant definition in a small tooltip. No internet connection is required after install. No account. No analytics or telemetry. No data is sent to any server during normal use. Requires access to pages only to enable the select-to-define feature on any site. It only acts on text you explicitly select or right-click. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ WHY WORDLENS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • WORKS FULLY OFFLINE after install. The entire 77,844-entry WordNet 3.1 dictionary is bundled inside the extension. Turn off WiFi, definitions keep working. • NO DATA IS SENT TO ANY SERVER during normal use. The extension has no backend. • NO ANALYTICS OR TELEMETRY of any kind. No usage logging, crash reporting, or third-party SDKs. • NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED. • ONLY THE TEXT YOU EXPLICITLY SELECT is used for lookup, processed locally inside your browser. No other page content is accessed, stored, or transmitted. • FAST. Definitions come from an in-memory dictionary, so lookups are instant. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SELECT TO DEFINE • Highlight any word or short phrase like "ad hoc" or "deep learning". A compact tooltip shows part of speech, definition, and an example sentence. • Right-click → "Define" also works. • Double-click lookup works across most sites including single-page apps. • Pronounce using on-device voice and save words directly from the tooltip. • Disable tooltip per site from settings. DEFINITION POPUP • Click the toolbar icon, type a word, press Enter. • Multi-sense results grouped by part of speech. • Fuzzy suggestions for misspellings. • Copy full definition with one click. MY WORDS • Add your own words, definitions, examples, and notes. • Custom entries appear above built-in definitions. • Search, edit, delete easily. • Export and import JSON for backup. Everything stays on device. PRACTICE • Daily Challenge with one question per day. • Guess the Word with progressive hints. • Definition Quiz with instant feedback. • Wrong answers show correct definitions for learning. PROGRESS • Streak tracking with automatic freeze days. • 14-day activity chart. • Accuracy tracking and lifetime stats. • Saved words with pin, pronounce, and export. • Export to TXT, CSV, or Anki format locally. ACCESSIBILITY • Full keyboard navigation. • High contrast UI. • Light, Dark, and Auto themes. • Adjustable density. • Screen reader support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Works fully offline after install. 2. No data is sent to any server during normal use. 3. No analytics or telemetry of any kind. 4. Only user-selected text is processed locally for lookup. Stored locally on your device: • Saved words • Streaks and scores • UI settings • Lookup activity counts for charts Never stored or transmitted: • Browsing history • Unselected page content • Personal data • Any identifiers The extension makes zero network requests during normal operation. Pronunciation uses only on-device text-to-speech. If unavailable, the feature is hidden. You can reset all local data anytime from settings or by uninstalling. Privacy policy: https://yourdomain.com/privacy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Read and change data on websites Used only to enable select-to-define on any page. Only selected text is processed locally. • storage Stores settings, saved words, and progress locally. • clipboardWrite Copies definitions when you click Copy. Clipboard is never read. • activeTab Used to detect site hostname for per-site tooltip control. • contextMenus Adds right-click "Define" option. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ★ OPEN DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Manifest V3 • Strict security policy • No remote code execution • No ads or paid tiers Dictionary data from Princeton WordNet 3.1