Elided: third-party word lists and data ======================================= This file is published at https://elided.app/notice.txt. It lists the sources of the word lists in Elided, a daily word puzzle, with their notices. The paths it cites (src/..., tools/lexicon/..., docs/... and the like) are in Elided's source repository, which is private: they are given so that each statement can be traced to a file, and a reader does not need them. Elided's word lists are built from other people's work. This file names each source, says what Elided takes from it, and carries the notice each one asks to travel with its data. Every licence, release or notice text below is copied verbatim from the file named above it, indented four spaces; only trailing spaces are removed, and line numbers where a file numbers its lines. The prose around those texts is Elided's, and is not legal advice; two sentences that begin "Elided's statement:" say what Elided itself asserts about its own files, and are no part of any source's terms. The downloads are pinned by version and sha256 in tools/lexicon/sources.json and fetched by tools/lexicon/fetch.py into tools/lexicon/raw/, which is not committed; where a text was fetched from somewhere else, the section says so. The files in this repository that carry the data: src/lexicon-v3.txt, src/words-v3.txt lexicon v3 and its browser twin: ENABLE at 4 to 12 letters, less a block list (tools/build-lexicon.py). src/lexicon-v4.txt, src/words-v4.txt lexicon v4 and its browser twin, the words a player may type: 4 to 16 letters, built by tools/build-lexicon-v4.py. The twin is served to browsers as /assets/words-v4-.txt. src/ladder-v1.txt the common words, from which answers are planted and hints drawn: the words of lexicon v3 at or above a frequency threshold. tools/braids/zipf.json word frequencies for an unshipped tool. Lexicon v4 is the union of ENABLE, SCOWL size 60 (American and British -ise spellings) and every other word that at least three of five further lists contain (SCOWL size 70, 12dicts 3of6game, 12dicts 2of12inf, the Wordnik wordlist and Open English WordNet), plus the cited words of tools/lexicon/additions.tsv, less the words of tools/lexicon/slurs.txt. The detail is in tools/lexicon/README.md and docs/SPEC.md section 7; the research behind the choice of sources is LEXICON.md. 1. ENABLE --------- What: ENABLE2K's master word list (enable1.txt, 172,823 words), by Mendel Cooper, with Alan Beale a major contributor. From: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dolph/dictionary/master/enable1.txt Used for: every word of lexicon v3 (4 to 12 letters, less a block list) and so of the ladder; and the whole list at 4 to 16 letters in lexicon v4. Terms: public domain; credit requested. Elided mentions the source and credits the authors of ENABLE as the originators of the list, as they ask. Elided's statement: in keeping with the release below, the ENABLE words in these files stay in the public domain, and nothing in this repository restricts their redistribution. The copy of the list that is pinned (dolph/dictionary) ships no readme of ENABLE's own. The release is reproduced here as two of the pinned sources quote it, word for word alike: SCOWL's docs/sources.md at commit 1e5b7d3, whose line breaks these are, and agid.txt in 12dicts-6.0.2.zip. The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product, you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not* legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair. 2. SCOWL / ESDB (the English Speller Database) ---------------------------------------------- What: word lists generated from Kevin Atkinson's English Speller Database, previously SCOWL v2. From: https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist, branch v2, commit 1e5b7d3a72f47a71da5d28686c1dd4b397178485 Used for: lexicon v4. Size 60, American and British -ise spellings, is taken whole at 4 to 16 letters; size 70 in the same two spellings is one of the five lists that vote. ESDB's usage labels were also read when the slur list was drafted. Terms: the copyright notice and permission below. Copied from the file Copyright at that commit: everything before its first "===". Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of the English Speller Database (ESDB, previously known as 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. ESDB 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 ESDB comes from 12dicts and ENABLE2K. Both are in the Public Domain, but Alan Beale 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 ESDB. The same file goes on to say which of its further notices apply to what. That passage, verbatim: If you are using an official speller dictionary created by ESDB 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 database or results from the 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. Elided's lists use spelling codes A and B (American, and British -ise) at sizes 60 and 70: no Australian list, none larger than 80, and neither the database itself nor any result that is not a generated word list. So the notices that follow in that file (Benjamin Titze's, the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary's and WordNet's) are not reproduced in this section. They are at https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/blob/v2/Copyright. 3. 12dicts ---------- What: Alan Beale's 12dicts word lists, version 6.0.2: 3of6game and 2of12inf. From: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/12dicts-6.0.2.zip Used for: lexicon v4. Each is one of the five lists that vote; neither is taken whole. Terms: 3of6game is public domain, acknowledgment requested. 2of12inf depends on AGID, and carries AGID's terms (section 4). Elided acknowledges its use of the 12dicts lists, compiled by Alan Beale. Copied from ReadMe.html in that zip, the paragraph that releases the lists (an HTML paragraph: its words are verbatim, its line breaks are the file's): The 12dicts lists were compiled by Alan Beale. I explicitly release them to the public domain, but request acknowledgment of their use. (Actually, the dependency of the 2of12inf list and the 2+2+3 lists on AGID prevents their release into the public domain. However, I do not impose any additional requirements on their use beyond those imposed by AGID and its sources, as described in agid.txt.) 4. AGID (the Automatically Generated Inflection Database) --------------------------------------------------------- What: Kevin Atkinson's inflection database, revision 2 (2000), which the 12dicts list 2of12inf is built with. From: agid.txt in 12dicts-6.0.2.zip (section 3). Used for: lexicon v4, only through 2of12inf, one of the five lists that vote. Terms: the copyright notice and permission below, and those of the sources it names. Copied from agid.txt: its section "COPYRIGHT AND SOURCE", whole, to the end of the file. COPYRIGHT AND SOURCE: The final product is under the following copyright, as well as any copyrights mentioned below. Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this database, the associated scripts, the output created form the scripts 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. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. The part-of-speech database used is created form the Moby part-of-speech database which is in the public domain: The Moby lexicon project is complete and has been place into the public domain. Use, sell, rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform. Placing this material on internal or public servers is also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. You can verify the public domain status by contacting Grady Ward 3449 Martha Ct. Arcata, CA 95521-4884 grady@netcom.com grady@northcoast.com and the WordNet database which is under the following copyright: This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and conditions.: Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution. WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and any associated documentation shall at all times remain with Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same. The word list used is a combination of several word list: 1) Most of the word lists from the Moby Words package: 10196pla.ces 113809of.fic 21986na.mes 256772co.mpo 354984si.ngl 3897male.nam 4160offi.cia 4946fema.len 6213acro.nym 74550com.mon The Moby Word package, like the Part-Of-Speech database is in the public domain. 2) The ENABLE2K word lists which is in the public domain: The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product, you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not* legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair. 3) All of the word lists in the ENABLE2K Supplemnt which consists of: 2DICTS.LST ALSO.LST LETTERS.LST OSPDADD.LST UCACR.LST ABLE.LST LCACR.LST NOPOS.LST PLURALS.LST UPPER.LST All of these word lists are also in the public domain. 4) The list of signature words from the YAWL package which is in the public domain. 5) The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary which in under the following copyright: 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. 6) Some extra words found in the Part-Of-Speech database that was not found in any of the above word list. 7) Words found in the Jargon File Word List package, available at http://aspell.sourceforge.net/wl/, which is in the Public Domain. 8) And finally some extra words that I added myself. These words can be found in the file "extra-words" The "dontuse", "irregular", and "variant" file was created by me (Kevin Atkinson) from numerous sources. 5. The Wordnik wordlist ----------------------- What: Wordnik's open-source wordlist for word games, wordlist-20210729.txt. From: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wordnik/wordlist/main/wordlist-20210729.txt Used for: lexicon v4, as one of the five lists that vote; it is not taken whole. Terms: the MIT License. Copied from the file LICENSE of https://github.com/wordnik/wordlist (branch main), fetched on 2026-10-05. It is not among the pinned downloads, which hold the list alone. MIT License Copyright (c) 2020 Wordnik Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. 6. Open English WordNet ----------------------- What: Open English WordNet 2025 Plus, WNDB format, by the Open English Wordnet team; derived from Princeton WordNet. From: https://en-word.net/static/english-wordnet-2025-plus.zip Used for: lexicon v4, as one of the five lists that vote. Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; and the WordNet licence of Princeton University for the data it derives from. What Elided changed: it reads only the lemmas of data.noun, data.verb, data.adj and data.adv that are lowercase a to z, and counts each as one vote for a word. No definition, relation or other part of the database is used or redistributed. Copied from that zip: the licence header that data.noun, data.verb, data.adj and data.adv each open with (the same thirty lines in all four, their line numbers removed). It names the 2023 edition in the 2025 Plus files; it is reproduced as it stands. This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, by the Open English Wordnet team under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0). Open English Wordnet 2023 Copyright 2023 by the Open English Wordnet team. Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make for internal use or for distribution. WordNet 3.1 Copyright 2011 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and any associated documentation shall at all times remain with Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same. 7. wordfreq ----------- What: wordfreq, by Robyn Speer: word frequencies drawn from many sources, among them SUBTLEX, OpenSubtitles and Google Books Ngrams. From: https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq (the Python package "wordfreq"). Used for: the frequency tier. tools/build-lexicon.py marked as common every word of lexicon v3 whose wordfreq zipf frequency in English is 3.3 or more. Those 15,254 words are the ladder, src/ladder-v1.txt, and the words lexicon v3 marks as common; lexicon v4 keeps the mark on 15,251 of them, the other three being words its slur list removes. tools/braids/zipf.json is an extract of wordfreq's data: the English zipf frequencies of the ladder's words of 4, 5, 7 and 8 letters. Terms: code under the Apache License 2.0; data under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Elided's statement: tools/braids/zipf.json is wordfreq's data in another form and is offered under the same licence, CC BY-SA 4.0. No other file here holds a frequency: the ladder and the lexicons record only which words passed the threshold. Copied from the file NOTICE.md of https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq (branch master), fetched on 2026-10-05, whole. It is not among the pinned downloads: wordfreq was installed with pip when lexicon v3 was built. wordfreq Copyright 2022 Robyn Speer # Attribution notes Robyn Speer must be credited as Robyn Speer, which is her maiden name, used on academic work. Crediting her as Elia Robyn Lake (her married name) will make the credit less effective, as it will not line up with other work. Crediting Robyn Speer by a different name than one of the above is a serious violation of the license, in which case you do not have permission to use, copy, or redistribute wordfreq. If you use wordfreq in academic work, you must cite it. See "Citing wordfreq" in README.md. # Included licenses `wordfreq` is freely redistributable under the Apache license (see `LICENSE.txt`), and it includes data files that may be redistributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (). `wordfreq` contains data extracted from Google Books Ngrams () and Google Books Syntactic Ngrams (). The terms of use of this data are: Ngram Viewer graphs and data may be freely used for any purpose, although acknowledgement of Google Books Ngram Viewer as the source, and inclusion of a link to http://books.google.com/ngrams, would be appreciated. `wordfreq` also contains data derived from the following Creative Commons-licensed sources: - The Leeds Internet Corpus, from the University of Leeds Centre for Translation Studies () - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia () - ParaCrawl, a multilingual Web crawl () It contains data from OPUS OpenSubtitles 2018 (), whose data originates from the OpenSubtitles project () and may be used with attribution to OpenSubtitles. It contains data from various SUBTLEX word lists: SUBTLEX-US, SUBTLEX-UK, SUBTLEX-CH, SUBTLEX-DE, and SUBTLEX-NL, created by Marc Brysbaert et al. (see citations below) and available at . I (Robyn Speer) have obtained permission by e-mail from Marc Brysbaert to distribute these wordlists in wordfreq, to be used for any purpose, not just for academic use, under these conditions: - Wordfreq and code derived from it must credit the SUBTLEX authors. - It must remain clear that SUBTLEX is freely available data. These terms are similar to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Some additional data was collected by a custom application that watched the streaming Twitter API, in accordance with Twitter's Developer Agreement & Policy. This software gives statistics about words that were commonly used on Twitter; it does not display or republish any Twitter content, and does not contain any content from after Twitter's sale. That notice refers to citations "below" which are in the same repository's README.md. The four that concern the English data named above, copied from its section "Citations to work that wordfreq is built on", fetched the same day: - Brysbaert, M. & New, B. (2009). Moving beyond Kucera and Francis: A Critical Evaluation of Current Word Frequency Norms and the Introduction of a New and Improved Word Frequency Measure for American English. Behavior Research Methods, 41 (4), 977-990. - van Heuven, W. J., Mandera, P., Keuleers, E., & Brysbaert, M. (2014). SUBTLEX-UK: A new and improved word frequency database for British English. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(6), 1176-1190. - Lison, P. and Tiedemann, J. (2016). OpenSubtitles2016: Extracting Large Parallel Corpora from Movie and TV Subtitles. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). - Lin, Y., Michel, J.-B., Aiden, E. L., Orwant, J., Brockman, W., and Petrov, S. (2012). Syntactic annotations for the Google Books Ngram Corpus. Proceedings of the ACL 2012 system demonstrations, 169-174. Also in this repository ----------------------- This file covers the lists a player's words are checked against and the frequency data behind the common words. Other third-party material is credited where it lives: src/dirty-v1.js its header names its source, LDNOOBW's "List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words", https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ src/fonts/README.md the four typefaces and their licences SOUNDS.md the two recorded sounds and their licences