an-array-of-basque-words

🇬🇧 English · 🇪🇸 Euskera

List of ~4,655,000 Basque (Euskera) words.

Derived from the Xuxen Basque Hunspell dictionary (eu_ES), processed and filtered to include only clean alphabetic words using the Basque character set ([a-zñ]).

Inspired by the architecture of an-array-of-english-words by Titus Wormer.

Install

npm install an-array-of-basque-words

Use

const words = require('an-array-of-basque-words')

console.log(words.length)     // ~N words
console.log(words.slice(0, 5))
// [ 'a', 'ab', ... ]

console.log(words.filter(w => w.startsWith('eusk')))
// [ 'euskal', 'euskaldun', 'euskara', ... ]

API

The default export is a string[] of Basque words.

TypeScript

Types are included:

import words = require('an-array-of-basque-words')

const filtered: string[] = words.filter(w => w.length === 5)

Dataset

• Source: Xuxen Basque Hunspell dictionary
• License: GPL-2.0-or-later
• Filter: Only characters matching /^[a-zñ]+$/

Build

To regenerate index.json from source:

node setup.js    # Download eu_ES.dic and eu_ES.aff from xuxen.eus
node expand.js   # Expand dictionary (memory-efficient, no external tools needed)
node build.js    # Clean, filter and generate index.json

Credits

• Linguistic data: Xuxen — Euskararen hiztegi arauemailea
• Architectural pattern: Titus Wormer (@wooorm) — an-array-of-english-words

License

GPL-2.0-or-later © Pablo G. Guízar