The VT Spelling Bee, Now Even Better!
Since we launched the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee this past summer, we've been delighted to see how much you've all been playing it. The numbers tell the tale: so far about 500,000 words have been...
View ArticleIntroducing... Our New Page for Educators
We here at the Visual Thesaurus have a long-standing commitment to providing tools for teachers who want to get students excited about language. From our award-winning application to our high-quality...
View ArticleWord Lists: Sharing the Lexical Love
In the two years since we launched word lists on the Visual Thesaurus, subscribers have taken advantage of the feature to catalogue everything from economics vocabulary to skateboarding verbs. Now it's...
View ArticleGrab Hold of Your Vocabulary with VocabGrabber!
We're tremendously excited to present a new feature on the Visual Thesaurus website called VocabGrabber, a tool that intelligently extracts words from any document you're interested in. All you need to...
View ArticleIntroducing... Community Spelling Bees
The Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee has been an enormously popular feature since we launched it last year, with nearly three million words played thus far. And now we're rolling out a new way to play the...
View ArticleThe Visual Thesaurus and The New York Times Team Up for Learning
For the past few years, the Visual Thesaurus has been a proud partner of The New York Times Learning Network, helping students boost their reading, writing and communications skills. We've been working...
View ArticleBen Zimmer Named New York Times Language Columnist
We are very pleased to announce that Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, has just been named the "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine. He will...
View ArticleSpelling Bee Whizzes Hone Their Skills with the Visual Thesaurus
The 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee kicks off today, with all eyes focused on the 273 young spellers gathered in Washington D.C. Thanks to national television exposure, the event is sure to spark...
View ArticleVisual Thesaurus Honored with World Technology Award
We are pleased to announce that the World Technology Network (WTN) has named the Visual Thesaurus the winner of the 2010 World Technology Award for education. The honor, bestowed by the WTN at its...
View ArticleVisual Thesaurus Expands to the iPad and iPhone
We're proud to announce a major technological advance for Visual Thesaurus users. We've just released a new version of the Visual Thesaurus that works for the iPad and the iPhone, at no extra cost to...
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