A word, read straight
Every word is a folded thing.
The people who made words folded meaning inside them — and then a few thousand years of use forgot. Drop a word below and slipsooth unfolds it: the parts, the literal shape, the truth buried in the fold. Captioneer's twin — captioneer catches the lie folded into a sentence; slipsooth recovers the truth folded into a word. It cites every unfolding, and it will never invent one.
The shelf
every one sourced · click to unfoldHow to read a badge
- etymonVerified history. The real, documented etymology — cited.
- glyphThe character itself. How the strokes were composed (六書) — a little cartoon or riddle frozen in the script.
- kingdomCoined, and labelled so. A YOUSPEAK word or the kingdom's own lore — presented as made, never as history.
- folkBeautiful, and false. A seductive decomposition that never happened. Shown on purpose, flagged, corrected.
A machine that recovers truth from words is not allowed to fake one. So slipsooth would rather say “I can't source that” than hand you a lie that reads well. The folk entries are the proof: it keeps the gorgeous wrong answer and tells you it's wrong.