Visuwords; the modern way to see how words are related

Just a few days ago one of my nieces said she couldn’t find a certain word in the dictionary and asked me to help. I think it might have been – ironically enough – the word assistance.

And sure enough it wasn’t there as its own entry.

But, of course, it was there under assist. And so we had a bit of a chat about how some words are formed from other words. If only I had remembered about the Visuwords web site, we could have gone to their browser and visually seen (he he) how the two words were related. Not just those two but how assist is related to lots of other words.  Just like this.