Word-Form Lookup
Type a verb or a noun into the box above and this tool instantly tells you its other grammatical forms — a verb's past-simple, past-participle, third-person-singular, and -ing forms, or a noun's plural (and, where a genuine second option exists, its alternate plural) — plus a direct link to that word's full page on this site if one exists. It's built specifically for the moment you already know which word you're checking and just want the answer fast, without reading a full explanatory page first: type "swim," get "swam / swum / swims / swimming" back immediately, then click through to the full page only if you actually want the history behind why "swim" doesn't just take -ed.
How it works
The lookup runs entirely in your browser against this site's own verb and noun data — there's no server round-trip, no external dictionary API, and no network delay once the page has loaded, because the full index of every verb and noun this site covers is bundled into the page the first time you visit it. As you type, the tool matches your input against that index and displays the word's forms the moment it finds a match, updating live rather than waiting for you to press a search button. If the word you type isn't in the site's index, the tool tells you plainly rather than guessing at a form it can't verify — it doesn't run any general-purpose morphology algorithm that might produce a form that looks right but isn't actually confirmed, because guessing wrong on a grammar reference tool is worse than admitting the word isn't covered yet. When a match is found, the tool also surfaces a link to that word's dedicated page, where you'll find the full etymology, common errors, and example sentences that don't fit in a quick-lookup result. The matching is deliberately tolerant of small typos and of searching by either the base form or an inflected form — typing "swam" instead of "swim" still finds the right entry, because the underlying index is keyed by every known form of a word, not just its dictionary headword, which mirrors how people actually remember and search for irregular forms rather than how a dictionary happens to alphabetize them. This also means the tool is genuinely two lookups in one: it recognizes verbs and recognizes nouns from the same input box, checking your query against both indexes and returning whichever one actually matches rather than requiring you to specify which kind of word you're looking up first.
Frequently asked questions
Does this tool work for words that aren't verbs or nouns?
No — it's built specifically to look up verb conjugations and noun plurals, the two categories this site covers in depth. Adjectives, adverbs, and other parts of speech aren't in its index, since they don't have the same kind of irregular-form problem this tool is designed to solve.
Why does it only cover some verbs and nouns, not every word in English?
The lookup only searches words this site has a dedicated, fact-checked page for. That's a deliberate tradeoff: every result you get back is backed by a real page with a genuine etymology and usage notes behind it, rather than a generic algorithmic guess covering every word in the dictionary but with no depth behind any single result.
Does this tool send my search queries anywhere?
No. The lookup runs entirely client-side against data already loaded in your browser, so nothing you type is sent to a server or logged anywhere as part of using the tool.
What should I do if the verb or noun I need isn't found?
Try the site's full A-Z index for verbs or nouns — the lookup tool's index is a fast subset built for quick typing, and occasionally a word covered on the site doesn't yet show up in the quick-search index while a longer manual search will still find its page.
Why not just use a general-purpose online conjugator or pluralizer instead?
General morphology tools are built to guess a form algorithmically for any word you type, which works fine for regular words but is exactly where irregular verbs and nouns cause trouble — an algorithm that doesn't know "swim" is irregular might confidently output "swimmed." This tool only returns a form when it's confirmed against a real, human-checked entry on this site, and says so plainly when a word isn't covered rather than guessing.