etymonline.com
Online Etymology Dictionary
The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms.
30
Not agent-ready yet
Agent-readiness score out of 100
- ✓ Clear description of the site
- ○ Several pages described
- ✓ Actions agents can take
- ○ 3 or more actions
- ○ Publishes its own LAWP (/.well-known/lawp.json)
- ○ Actions agents can execute
- ○ Business details (address, hours, phone)
How to improve this score
Up to +70 points:
+15 · Several pages described
List your key pages (services, prices, about, contact) in the
List your key pages (services, prices, about, contact) in the
pages of your starter lawp.json, or link them from your homepage and sitemap.+10 · 3 or more actions
Most businesses have at least three: contact, book or order, and view prices.
Most businesses have at least three: contact, book or order, and view prices.
+15 · Publishes its own LAWP (/.well-known/lawp.json)
Publish your starter lawp.json at
Publish your starter lawp.json at
/.well-known/lawp.json. WordPress: install the Actuent plugin. Cloudflare: use the one-click Worker.+15 · Actions agents can execute
Give an action an
Give an action an
endpoint on your domain so agents can do it for the user, not just link to it. See LAWP Actions.+15 · Business details (address, hours, phone)
Add schema.org business data to your homepage (the starter snippet). Google uses it too.
Add schema.org business data to your homepage (the starter snippet). Google uses it too.
Starter lawp.json for etymonline.com
Made from what Actuent already knows. Edit it, then publish it at
https://etymonline.com/.well-known/lawp.json. Check it with the LAWP Checker, or edit it in the LAWP Generator.{
"lawp_version": "0.3",
"domain": "etymonline.com",
"name": "Online Etymology Dictionary",
"language": "en",
"pages": {
"/": {
"title": "Online Etymology Dictionary",
"content": "The online etymology dictionary (etymonline) is the internet's go-to source for quick and reliable accounts of the origin and history of English words, phrases, and idioms."
}
},
"actions": [
{
"id": "search",
"name": "Search the site",
"input": {
"type": "text",
"required": true
},
"intent": [
"search",
"find",
"look up"
],
"description": "Search Online Etymology Dictionary"
},
{
"id": "contact",
"name": "Contact",
"input": {
"type": "text",
"required": false
},
"intent": [
"contact",
"email",
"get in touch",
"message"
],
"description": "Email etymonline@protonmail.com\\"
}
]
}Starter schema.org snippet
Replace the example values, then paste into your homepage's <head>.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "LocalBusiness",
"name": "Online Etymology Dictionary",
"url": "https://etymonline.com",
"telephone": "+00 0000 0000",
"priceRange": "€€",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Street 1",
"postalCode": "0000",
"addressLocality": "City",
"addressCountry": "DK"
},
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday"
],
"opens": "09:00",
"closes": "17:00"
}
]
}
</script>What AI agents can do here
Search the site
Search Online Etymology Dictionary
searchfindlook upContact
Email etymonline@protonmail.com\
contactemailget in touchmessageAI bot access
robots.txt blocks 4 AI bots from the whole site:
- ✕ GPTBot OpenAI (training)
- ✕ ChatGPT-User ChatGPT (browsing for a user)
- ✕ ClaudeBot Anthropic (training)
- ✕ CCBot Common Crawl (used by many AI models)
1 of these fetch pages when someone asks an AI assistant about you. Blocking them means assistants can't read your site for customers.
Let them in (add to robots.txt)
These lines allow the search and assistant bots while leaving training bots blocked. Put them above any
User-agent: * group.User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /For AI agents
Get this site as structured JSON:
GET https://api.actuent.ai/api/search?q=etymonline.com
Or connect Actuent to ChatGPT or Claude:
https://agents.actuent.ai/api/mcpLast updated 26 Sep 2026
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<script src="https://api.actuent.ai/badge.js" data-domain="etymonline.com" async></script> or the image https://api.actuent.ai/badge.svg?domain=etymonline.com&style=cardActuent is a search engine for AI agents, made by localilabs. Data is generated automatically from public web content and may be incomplete.
