on November 10, 2006, usually shown at the end of Maya & Miguel; the segment was then spun off into a new thirty-minute episodic series that premiered on September 3, 2007 to August 7, 2015 on most PBS member stations.

[4][5] However, new episodes continued to air on select stations, with streaming options on the PBS Kids website and video app.

WordGirl is born on the fictional planet Lexicon (also a term referring to the vocabulary of a language or to a dictionary) but was sent away after sneaking onto a spaceship and sleeping there.

Becky's pet chimpanzee and sidekick, Captain Huggy Face, who was a pilot in the Lexicon Air Force, piloted the ship, but lost control when WordGirl awoke, and crash-landed on Earth (more specifically in Fair City), a planet that affords WordGirl her superpowers, including flight and super strength.

[citation needed] WordGirl is adopted and provided an alter ego by father Tim and mother Sally Botsford, who gave her the name Becky.

While in her alter ego, she has a younger brother, TJ Botsford, obsessed with WordGirl, but still unknowingly a typical sibling rival to Becky.

At the same time, she must worry about maintaining her second life as Becky, keeping people from discovering the truth and living normal family situations.

", ostensibly hosted by Todd "Scoops" Ming, is a short jingle and a series of vox populi interviews asking random children what their favorite words are and why.

Yet another segment features the interstitials announcer (Rodger Parsons) asking Captain Huggy Face for a visual demonstration of a certain word (such as "strenuous" or "flummoxed").

When Captain Huggy Face correctly demonstrates the meaning of the word, a definition is given, followed by a victory dance by the chimpanzee sidekick.

The companion site to WordGirl lives on PBS Kids, and was built by interactive firm Big Bad Tomato.

"[19] In 2022, Collider attested that the "non-white, little girl superhero" protagonist of WordGirl began a television trend on social media.