Dictionary

Most dictionary bots want you to open their chat. This one has no chat to open: it lives in the message field. Type @thewatbot followed by a word in any conversation, and a list of senses appears above the keyboard, each labelled with the language of the entry and the part of speech. Tap one and the message goes out with the definition and up to ten usage examples, so the person you are talking to sees the same explanation you do.

The data comes from the English Wiktionary, the free dictionary that describes words from hundreds of languages in English. The bot therefore finds a Spanish, Indonesian or Arabic word the same way as an English one, as long as Wiktionary has an entry for it, but the explanation is always in English. Inflected forms are followed back to the headword: a plural or a past tense brings up the base word's entry too.

It is a small open-source project by the developer Darvesh, listed in the community catalogue of bots built with the grammY framework, and the code was last updated in December 2025. What it does not do: pronunciation audio, saved word lists, or anything in a private chat — a message sent to the bot gets no reply. When nothing matches, it offers to search again.