@herbcaudill/scrabble-words

Parsed Scrabble word lists with definitions and metadata.

Dictionaries

• CSW21 - Collins Scrabble Words (279,077 words, ~30MB)
• NWL2018 - North American Word List (192,111 words, ~16MB)

Installation

npm install @herbcaudill/scrabble-words

Usage

import csw from "@herbcaudill/scrabble-words/csw21"
import nwl from "@herbcaudill/scrabble-words/nwl2018"

// Find a word
const word = csw.find(w => w.word === "QUIXOTIC")

console.log(word)
// {
//   word: "QUIXOTIC",
//   definitions: [{
//     text: "extravagantly chivalrous",
//     partOfSpeech: "adj"
//   }]
// }

Types

type Word = {
  word: string
  definitions: Definition[]
  crossRef?: CrossRef
}

type Definition = {
  text: string
  partOfSpeech: string
  forms?: string[]        // e.g. ["CATS"] or ["JUMPED", "JUMPING", "JUMPS"]
  alsoSpelled?: string[]  // alternative spellings
  note?: string           // e.g. "Hawaiian", "obsolete"
}

type CrossRef = {
  word: string           // base word this is a form of
  partOfSpeech: string
}

Data source

Word lists are parsed from the scrabblewords repository.

License

MIT