Our Dictionary has always focused on resources for word learners that help you fully understand not just what a word means, but also how it's used. Today, we add a new dimension to these resources: a "word forms" section of the page where you can see how a word's spelling or pronunciation varies.
On the Dictionary page for house, for example, you can see that we're splitting out the two pronunciations of that word on the right. Click on the speaker icon to hear each pronunciation and quickly distinguish the meaning of one from the other. And hover over the part-of-speech boxes to see exactly which meanings go with which variant.
This new feature is handy in addressing variations in spelling as well, including US and UK variants. Look up socialize, and you'll see its UK spelling socialise right up next to the Union Jack, while the US socialize is aligned with the Stars and Stripes.
Sometimes spelling variants don't break down so easily. Take theater and theatre. The theater form is typically found in the US, but theatre can be found in both the US and the UK. In order to indicate that, we show the UK flag next to theatre and both countries' flags side by side for theatre. Who says the US and UK have to be countries separated by a common language?