OpenThesaurus
· #366 most-usedLook up German synonyms and enrich your language automatically
OpenThesaurus is a free, open-source German synonym dictionary with over 280,000 synonyms grouped into semantic synsets. Built and maintained by a volunteer community, it is the authoritative free thesaurus for German-language content work and is integrated into LibreOffice, Apple Dictionary, and other major tools. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can look up synonyms for any German word, flag repeated vocabulary in documents, validate that translated text uses recognised German terms, expand keyword lists, detect ambiguous terms with multiple meanings, and check whether inflected word forms map to standard dictionary base forms — all without a team member opening a thesaurus tab.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the cycle of manually looking up German words in a browser-based thesaurus and copying synonym alternatives back into documents, templates, and spreadsheets.
What your OpenThesaurus agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
OpenThesaurus × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
German keyword list expanded with synonym sets before content planning
When new German seed keywords are added to the planning sheet, the agent calls Batch Synonym Lookup for each term and writes the resulting synonym sets back to the sheet — then appends a summary to the Notion content plan and posts a completion notification to Slack. The SEO team opens the sheet to find a complete vocabulary map already prepared, without visiting a thesaurus tool.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales20 min / weekManual thesaurus lookup per word
Reps switch to a browser tab, search OpenThesaurus manually for each repeated German word, copy alternatives, and paste them back into the proposal draft.
Sales Agent0 minAgent adds synonym suggestions inline in the draftWhen a German proposal is created, the agent scans for repeated words, retrieves synonyms, and inserts suggestions as document comments — the rep never leaves the draft.
- Marketing90 min / weekOne-by-one manual keyword synonym research
The SEO team manually looks up each German seed keyword in OpenThesaurus, copies the synonym groups, and pastes them into the sheet one row at a time.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent expands the full keyword list in one scheduled agent taskThe agent reads the German keyword list from Google Sheets, calls Batch Synonym Lookup for every term, and writes synonym sets back to the sheet — the vocabulary map is ready before the planning meeting.
- Customer Support30 min / weekManual proofreading of every translated ticket
Support agents must manually read and check each auto-translated German ticket response, looking up unfamiliar words individually to confirm they are correct standard German.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent validates translated German responses before ticket closeThe agent checks each content word in auto-translated German responses against the thesaurus and flags non-standard terms for review — catching translation errors before they reach the customer.
- Human Resources15 min / weekManual glossary term verification
HR writers manually look up each defined term in the policy document to confirm it is a recognised standard German word, a process that becomes error-prone for long technical policies.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent validates HR document vocabulary on publicationWhen a new German HR policy is published, the agent checks every glossary term against the thesaurus and notifies the HR lead of any non-standard words before the document is distributed.
- Finance20 min / weekManual cross-document terminology comparison
Finance team members manually compare terminology across reports to check whether 'Umsatz' and 'Erlös' are being used interchangeably or with distinct meanings — time-consuming without a reference.
Finance Agent0 minAgent surfaces synonym variants across financial reports automaticallyThe finance agent maps key accounting terms to their full synsets across all weekly reports, flagging when synonyms are used inconsistently across documents from different team members.
- Operations15 min / weekManual synonym research per glossary entry
Operations staff manually research each new glossary entry in a thesaurus tool, copy the relevant synonym information, and paste it into the entry — skipping this step when time is short.
Operations Agent0 minAgent enriches every glossary entry with synonym data on additionWhen a new term is added to the company glossary, the agent retrieves synonyms and synonym count from OpenThesaurus and attaches them to the entry — the glossary grows with vocabulary context built in.
- Legal30 min / weekManual term disambiguation review
Legal reviewers must identify potentially ambiguous German terms themselves by reading the contract, then manually checking the thesaurus to assess whether each term carries multiple distinct meanings.
Legal Agent0 minAgent flags semantically ambiguous contract terms before review beginsWhen a German contract arrives, the agent checks each defined term for multiple distinct synsets and lists ambiguous terms in the review task — legal counsel knows the ambiguity risks before opening the document.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on OpenThesaurus's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~0.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug OpenThesaurus into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
OpenThesaurus provides a free public API that requires no API key or account. Connect in seconds by verifying the endpoint is reachable — no credentials to manage.
Find OpenThesaurus in the Apps library and click Connect. No account or API key is required — OpenThesaurus is a free public API.
Actionist verifies it can reach the OpenThesaurus endpoint. The connection test completes in seconds and the agent is ready to look up German synonyms.
12 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
0 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.