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The tools people reach for most often are also apps. They are free, they carry no advertising, and they ask for nothing you would not give a dictionary. Everything they know comes from the same research that runs the Labs.

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Chol

சொல் · The dictionary

An English and Tamil dictionary built for learners of the language. Type a word in either language and read every sense of it, not just the first.

  • Definition in the target language
  • Pronunciation, spoken properly
  • Example sentences showing real use
  • Variants and synonyms of the word
  • Related words that commonly travel with it
  • Photographs where a picture explains faster
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Kural

குறள் · Thirukkural

All 1,330 couplets of the Thirukkural, in a form built for reading rather than reciting. Search by an idea, in Tamil or English, and not only by a word that happens to appear.

  • Search by concept, in Tamil or in English
  • Audio for every one of the 1,330 kural
  • Four commentaries side by side, so a verse can be read from more than one view
  • Browse by paal, iyal and adhigaram
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Emoni

எமொனி · The rhyme finder

For poets, lyricists and anyone who has ever been one line short. Give Emoni a word and it returns the words that sing with it, in the three Tamil rhyme schemes.

  • மோனை · monai, rhyme on the first letter
  • எதுகை · edhugai, rhyme on the second letter
  • இயைபு · iyaibu, rhyme on the last letter
  • Ranked by how well each word actually sits with yours
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Paeri

பேரி · The name finder

Naming a child, a company or a character. Give Paeri a starting sound and a preference, and go on a naming quest through a very large field of possibilities.

  • 50,000 names already in common use
  • 325,000 names built from dictionary words
  • 22 crore names generated from Tamil phonetics
  • Each result rated for how well it sounds
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Behind these sit the rest of the Labs, which run in any browser: a morphological analyser, a transliterator across scripts, a sentence tagger, a word web, a lyric archive, Tamil speech. All free, all built on the same research.

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