Word Menagerie dictionary: lowercase ASCII four- and five-letter entries from /usr/share/dict/web2 supplied with macOS. Source: Webster’s Second International (1934), via James A. Woods / Berkeley / FreeBSD. The supplier states the original copyright has lapsed. This is a historical dictionary and includes uncommon words. Original distribution notice follows. # @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 # $FreeBSD$ WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) ------------------------- Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth. The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim. -- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs) Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166. FreeBSD Maintenance Notes --------------------------------------------- Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings. A few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated. This list of words includes: corelation (and its derivatives) "correlation" is the preferred spelling freen typographical error in original file freend archaic spelling no longer in use; masks common typo in modern text -- A list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'. This word list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system documentation. It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to supplement the standard English language dictionary. LAST LETTER STANDING: ESDB American English supplement Source: https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist-diff/blob/rel-2026.02.25/en_US.txt License: https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist-diff/blob/rel-2026.02.25/Copyright Filtered to lowercase ASCII alphabetic four-, five-, and six-letter entries. Upstream en_US.txt SHA-256: 4ff7e0b6d86763e1e042ffd746e94cdf4432618702deac303a1669e2a838db04 Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of SCOWLv2, or word lists created from it, is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the above copyright notice and this notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this database for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. SCOWL is derived from many sources, most of which are in the Public Domain. Data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) was also used. All data from COCA comes from 3-gram data that is not freely available; however, the usage is within the rights given by the NDA that was signed when purchasing the data. More information on COCA is available at https://www.english-corpora.org/coca/. The primary source of words for SCOWL comes from 12dicts and ENABLE2K. Both are in the Public Domain, but Alan Beale deserves special credit as he is the author of 12dicts and a major contributor to ENABLE2K. In addition, he gave me an incredible amount of feedback and created a number of special lists in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL. === If you are using an official speller dictionary created by SCOWL that is not Australian English, then no additional copyright applies and including the notice before the === is sufficient. If you are using the Australian English dictionary or a wordlist that uses the 'D' SPELLING code and/or the 'AU' REGION code, the copyright after '=== AU' applies. If you are using a generated word list larger than 80, the copyright after '=== UKACD' applies. If you are distributing the SCOWLv2 database or results from the SCOWL database that is not a speller dictionary or generated word list, then both copyrights may apply depending on the parts you use. In addition, the WordNet copyright MIGHT apply as WordNet was one of many sources used for the initial POS assignment. === AU The initial information for Australian English comes from Benjamin Titze: Copyright 2016 by Benjamin Titze Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this array, the associated software, and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. Benjamin Titze makes no representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. === UKACD Some words used come from the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary: Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved. 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Word Market three-letter extension: 820 lowercase ASCII three-letter entries were added from the same pinned and SHA-256-verified ESDB source and are covered by the same permission notices. market-words.txt now includes three- and seven-letter entries. Short-word extension: two- and three-letter word-game entries from the public-domain Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon (ENABLE), via https://github.com/dolph/dictionary/blob/master/enable1.txt, with supplemental short plays. The game dictionary is not an official tournament list.