Understand unfamiliar words in Telegram without leaving the conversation
Send a word you want to understand, and get its dictionary entry where you can keep the conversation moving.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
Get Word Definition V2
Tool to retrieve definitions, phonetics, origin, and meanings of a given word using freedictionaryapi v2. use when you need comprehensive lexical data for a specific word.
Why this helps
Switching away from a chat to research a word can break focus and make it harder to return to the original task.
- Clarify a term while the conversation is still in view.
- Reduce browser tab switching during focused work.
- Get pronunciation and word origin alongside meanings.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Dictionary api to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Ask Notis to create an automation that looks up a clearly identified word in a new Telegram message and returns its definition, phonetics, and origin.
- 3Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and select a channel for run reports.
- 4Test by sending one unfamiliar word to the connected bot.
Questions about this workflow
Does this look up every word in a message?
The prompt can tell Notis to act only when the message clearly asks for a lookup or marks a particular word.
What information can the lookup include?
The Dictionary api action can return definitions, phonetics, origin, and meanings for the selected word.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Dictionary api. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Dictionary api actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Word Definition V2
Tool to retrieve definitions, phonetics, origin, and meanings of a given word using freedictionaryapi v2. use when you need comprehensive lexical data for a specific word.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Dictionary api, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
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