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fancyword.abi-countdown.de

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Infinite content-swiping sites are in fashion, I suppose, so why not at least learn beautiful English words while aimlessly tapping or clicking your screen. Words that I found especially appealing are marked as legendary (you will know what I mean when you see them).

The Stack is Svelte with Tailwind, Directus for managing the words and Umami for a bit of insight into the traffic and there is actually a limited number of words, since I manually collected them. No AI was involved in the creation of this website, the words or descriptions.

So use your fugacious chance, until my server gets hugged to death :)

Where it it getting the data from? Is it possible to download a subset of that dataset offline, so that I can keep swiping and learn new "fancy words" when I'm not with an Internet connection.

Please don’t capitalize the first letter unless it is a proper noun. Would make it slightly better experience.

Thanks for the feedback, I think you are right. Having a single word be lowercase just felt ... less aesthetic, but you have a point as that is how it will be properly used.

I like it! I would change the URL from fancyword to something more along the lines of the title here.

Yep, that would for sure be more serious, but I liked the juxtaposition between a website about eloquent language and the clumsy, middle-school-like description of "fancy words".

And I am really happy that someone liked it :)

I have a suggestion, how about adding a regularly used sentence, with the word?

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