Wordnik
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Wordnik, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Wordnik's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $10 a month | 1000 calls/hour |
| Pro | $59 a month | 20,000 calls/hour |
| Enterprise | $149 a month | 45,000 calls/hour |
| Free Basic Plan | — | 100 calls/hour · free for nonprofit or research use · free trial for commercial use |
The facts
Each one read from Wordnik's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API caching limit
- Basic Plan users cannot cache API data; paid-plan users may temporarily cache display text, but not raw API data, for offline use.checked 11 Oct 2001
- API use
- Wordnik permits commercial apps using its API, but asks commercial apps beyond proof-of-concept stage to upgrade to a paid plan; an app cannot duplicate the Wordnik API itself.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Community features
- Logged-in users can create word lists, comment on word pages, list pages, and profiles, and mark words as favorites.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Definitions
- The site shows definitions from multiple sources, and the API offers definitions from five dictionaries covering more than 800,000 words.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Downloadable data
- Wordnik offers a downloadable dataset of nearly 200,000 words and definitions optimized for word games.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Examples
- Wordnik provides real example sentences and links to their sources for more than 10,000,000 words.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Integrations and data sources
- Wordnik says it uses WordNet for much of its hypernym and hyponym data, and its word-page images come from Flickr under a Creative Commons license.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Other API features
- The API includes audio pronunciations, word-of-the-day and random-word endpoints, spelling suggestions, and word phrases.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Privacy
- Wordnik's FAQ says it will never sell personal user data or share it with other organizations or use it for marketing purposes.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Product
- Wordnik describes itself as the world's biggest online English dictionary by number of words and says its mission is to find and share as many English words as possible.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Related words
- Wordnik's word relationships include synonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, words used in the same context, reverse dictionary results, and tags.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Security
- Wordnik's privacy policy says it uses administrative, physical, and electronic safeguards, including encryption, firewalls, and SSL during transmission, and says it cannot guarantee protection against all threats.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Support
- Wordnik directs API questions to [email protected] and general feedback to [email protected].checked 11 Oct 2001
The company
- Company
- Wordnik states that it is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; its About page lists a postal address in Portland, Oregon.checked 11 Oct 2001
- Founded
- 2009checked 28 Sep 2001
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