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say it: IN-wurd
The AltF Lexicon word of the day for Sunday, 4 January 2026 is inward — an adjective and adverb meaning "relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts". It is said in-ward, stressed on "in".
relating to or existing in the mind or thoughts
“a concern with inward reflections”
inward carries 4 recorded senses in total. Open the full entry to read them all, grouped by part of speech and each with its own synonyms, antonyms and broader and narrower terms.
2 syllables, with the beat on "in" — in-ward. The transcription /ˈɪnwɚd/ comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
It carries 4 senses, spread across 2 parts of speech (adjective and adverb) — against a corpus average of 1.4 an entry. The meaning you already know is usually not the only one.
Its first sense is filed in WordNet's single adjective file — it sorts nouns and verbs by subject but keeps adjectives together, which is where the relations below come from rather than from any editorial judgement of ours.
Commonness band 2 of 5 — Uncommon. Turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 31,297 of the 147,478 entries share that band, measured against a corpus of everyday English rather than assigned by an editor.
Every sentence above is derived from the entry’s stored record. Nothing here is a story about where the word came from, because the corpus does not carry etymology and a plausible invented one would be the only unverifiable claim on the page.
Sunday, 4 January 2026 is day 4 of its year, and slot 4 of the 366-word rotation holds inward. The mapping is arithmetic on the date and nothing else, so this page said the same thing a year ago and will say it a year from now, and every other day in the archive resolves the same way. How the rotation works, in full.
Definitions, examples and semantic relations come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.