Disclosures & Credits

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Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're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 <biljir@pobox.com> 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.

  The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
  if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
  or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
  prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
  verbatim.

  There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
  distributed as widely as possible.

=== WordNet

WordNet was used to help with the initial POS assignment:

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Word Market extension: market-words.txt contains 11667 lowercase ASCII seven-letter entries from the same pinned ESDB en_US.txt source above, with the same copyright and permission notice. Original source SHA-256 verified before filtering. Word Morph and Last Letter word-length filters remain unchanged.

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.