Dictionary Sources

What's actually behind the results

Word validity comes from two combined general-English sources, not any single game's official word list:

• SCOWL/ESDB (release rel-2026.02.25), an MIT-like–licensed English word database maintained atgithub.com/en-wl/wordlist.
• ENABLE1, a public-domain word list compiled by M. Cooper and Alan Beale.

A word counts as valid if it appears in either source. Both are pinned to an exact upstream release and verified by checksum before use, so results don't silently change without a deliberate update.

What this isn't

This is a general-English word list, not any specific game's official dictionary — including Scrabble's. A word can be valid here and still be rejected by a particular game, or vice versa. Where a tool needs a game-specific answer list, that's called out separately on that tool's own page.

Ranking and sensitive terms

Results are currently ordered by a simple signal — whether a word appears in both sources or just one — not by how often it's actually used in real writing; treat the ordering as a rough guide, not a precise frequency ranking.

A set of sensitive terms is hidden from results by default: terms flagged by the source data's own criteria, plus a small batch we've reviewed and flagged by hand. Where a tool offers a Filters section, an "Include sensitive words" control lets you turn this off and see everything the dictionary considers valid. This classification is not exhaustive and not a safety guarantee — most of the dictionary hasn't been individually reviewed for sensitive content, so a word with no flag may simply be one nobody has looked at yet, not one confirmed clean. Don't rely on this filtering to make results child-safe or comprehensively screened.