Popup Dictionary
How to use it
Click any Hindi word on a parsed page, in video subtitles, or anywhere on the dashboard, and the popup dictionary appears. Click the word again or click anywhere else to close it.
It works everywhere across Desi Lingo: parsed pages, YouTube/Netflix/Prime subtitles, the web reader, dictionary page, and grammar examples.
What you'll see
The popup shows the word with its romanized pronunciation at the top, then a frequency badge, grammar tags, definitions, and status buttons at the bottom.
Definitions come from four sources. The most common ~11,000 words have hand-curated Desi Lingo definitions that always take priority. The rest come from Wiktionary, FreeDict, and an open-source Hindi-English dataset. A small badge on each definition shows where it came from.
Frequency rank
The number next to a word (like #42) tells you how common it is in Hindi. Lower numbers mean more common. The top 2,000 or so words cover most everyday Hindi, so those are worth focusing on early.
Some words show two frequency numbers. One for the exact form you clicked and one for the dictionary form (lemma). The surface rank tells you how often you'll run into that particular spelling.
Inflected forms
Hindi words change shape a lot for tense, gender, number, and case. Click an inflected form like बोलती (boltee) and the popup traces it back to बोलना (bolnaa, "to speak"), showing an arrow between them.
Under the hood, this uses a table of 358,000+ inflected forms mapped to their dictionary entries. It all runs in your browser, no server needed.
Transliteration
Click the Aa button in the popup or press Ctrl+Shift+R to switch between Devanagari and romanized text across the whole page. Good for checking pronunciation or if you're still getting comfortable with the script.
Tabbed identities
Some words have multiple identities. A word might be both a noun on its own and an inflected verb form. When that happens, the popup shows tabs so you can see each identity and pick the right one for the context.
Popup Dictionary
How to use it
Click any Hindi word on a parsed page, in video subtitles, or anywhere on the dashboard, and the popup dictionary appears. Click the word again or click anywhere else to close it.
It works everywhere across Desi Lingo: parsed pages, YouTube/Netflix/Prime subtitles, the web reader, dictionary page, and grammar examples.
What you'll see
The popup shows the word with its romanized pronunciation at the top, then a frequency badge, grammar tags, definitions, and status buttons at the bottom.
Definitions come from four sources. The most common ~11,000 words have hand-curated Desi Lingo definitions that always take priority. The rest come from Wiktionary, FreeDict, and an open-source Hindi-English dataset. A small badge on each definition shows where it came from.
Frequency rank
The number next to a word (like #42) tells you how common it is in Hindi. Lower numbers mean more common. The top 2,000 or so words cover most everyday Hindi, so those are worth focusing on early.
Some words show two frequency numbers. One for the exact form you clicked and one for the dictionary form (lemma). The surface rank tells you how often you'll run into that particular spelling.
Inflected forms
Hindi words change shape a lot for tense, gender, number, and case. Click an inflected form like बोलती (boltee) and the popup traces it back to बोलना (bolnaa, "to speak"), showing an arrow between them.
Under the hood, this uses a table of 358,000+ inflected forms mapped to their dictionary entries. It all runs in your browser, no server needed.
Transliteration
Click the Aa button in the popup or press Ctrl+Shift+R to switch between Devanagari and romanized text across the whole page. Good for checking pronunciation or if you're still getting comfortable with the script.
Tabbed identities
Some words have multiple identities. A word might be both a noun on its own and an inflected verb form. When that happens, the popup shows tabs so you can see each identity and pick the right one for the context.