A starfield of difficult words

Words don’t exist
in isolation.

Every word belongs to a neighborhood of ideas, histories, writers, and contrasts. Lexicon makes those relationships visible.

Available for iPhone.

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01 / The premise

Fly through a starfield of ideas.

Tap a star or beam to travel through the relationships that make difficult language intelligible. Explore literature, philosophy, psychology, science, mathematics, theology, political thought, and more.

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See how words connect.

Today

Meet a word worth keeping.

Start with a genuinely challenging word, then follow it into a neighborhood of connected language and ideas.

Starfield

See how difficult words connect.

Fly between words, then rotate the same intellectual sky through subjects, writers, and thinkers.

Learn

Learn it well enough to use it.

Review through typed recall, context, voice, and the precise distinctions between neighboring terms.

My Lexicon

Build a Lexicon from your own reading.

Save words, scan printed pages, and build constellations from the books and passages you encounter.

Personalize

Make it your own.

01

Save discoveries and mark the words you already know.

02

Prepare to read demanding writers and thinkers through Curated Paths.

03

Capture unfamiliar words and their sentences from your own reading.

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Use Lexicon without an account, advertising profile, or remote vocabulary service.

Lexicon for iPhone

A richer command of language.

Discover difficult words worth keeping, follow their connections, and turn recognition into lasting command.

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