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Is there a cognate lookup that doesn’t rely on a base language? There are plenty of multilingual options that force you to select an input or output option. Are there any that search close-enough words (whether cognates or simply spelled similarly)?

@mattia I want to know if these exist too, this is a really, really good idea, to have one that combines all languages.

LLMs are the closest thing we have so far but the accuracy is very low. And really, a tool such as this should be no more complex than a spell checker, and so a lookup should only take up a tiny fraction of the amount of memory and compute power an LLM requires for local inference.

As one of those that is quite likely to use the word delve in both the original archaic sense of tilling the soil and the more current general sense of doing work and research in some detail, I'm more than a little indignant that its overuse by Openai generators is likely to cast doubt upon my own legitimate vocabulary.

And yes spelt is the past tense of the verb to spell. And yes this is serious.