Word·le (wûr?dl)n.1. An applet by which word clouds can be created on a computer.2. A word cloud made by means of this applet.[Coined by Jonathan Feinberg (born 1967), American software engineer who developed the applet .]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.