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About the words
- Each word is picked in your browser with crypto.getRandomValues, and every word that matches your choices has the same chance.
- With No repeats on, a word appears at most once in a list. With it off, the same word can come up again.
- Word types come from WordNet. A word can be more than one type, for example both a noun and a verb. When WordNet has seen a word used as some types in real text but not others, only those types are kept.
- The list holds 18,304 English words of three or more lowercase letters: the words of the 3esl list that WordNet gives a word type. Words on a public list of offensive words, and on a short list of our own, are left out.
Word list: the 3esl list from 12dicts 6.0.2 by Alan Beale, released to the public domain. Word types: WordNet 3.0, Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.
Offensive-word filter: “List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words” (github.com/LDNOOBW), licensed under CC BY 4.0. It is only used to remove words and is not shown on this page.
Word list notices
12dicts 6.0.2 (3esl list) by Alan Beale
The 12dicts lists were compiled by Alan Beale. I explicitly release them to the public domain, but request acknowledgment of their use. (12dicts ReadMe.html)
WordNet 3.0 (parts of speech)
WordNet Release 3.0
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