UX behind Thesaurus.com

I’m lost for words…

And when that happens, as I am sure most of the people reading this are wont to do, we hit that new tab button and pull up thesaurus.com. Now I have been using it for as long as I can remember, and the site itself has seen many different changes and evolved over the years. I never really paid attention to it until quite recently, when it just struck me how clean and minimal its UX is.

Take a look:

Relevancy corresponding to colour is an elegant idea, and something I struggle to recollect if previous iterations had implemented. There are questions to be raised regarding accessibility, especially as it pertains to the colourblind.

The new feature of trying the word in a sentence is also quite useful, especially as it pertains to new students of English. As we know, English can be quite confusing in a word that looks, spells and sounds the same to be meaning three or more things. The suggestions below, at least as far as I have tried are also largely relevant.

I just thought it worth a post to appreciate a resource that most of us take for granted.