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Word-list data in WordroW is derived from the English Speller Database (ESDB/SCOWL), release 2026.02.25, maintained by Kevin Atkinson. The data has been filtered and curated for WordroW.

Pinned release: rel-2026.02.25. Source and licence: https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/blob/rel-2026.02.25/Copyright.

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Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of 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
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Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this database for
any purpose.  It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

SCOWL 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 SCOWL comes from 12dicts and ENABLE2K.  Both
are in the Public Domain, but Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> 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 SCOWL.

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If you are using an official speller dictionary created by SCOWL 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 SCOWLv2 database or results from the SCOWL 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.

=== AU

The initial information for Australian English comes from Benjamin Titze:

  Copyright 2016 by Benjamin Titze

  Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this array, the
  associated software, 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. Benjamin Titze makes no
  representations about the suitability of this array for any
  purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

=== UKACD

Some words used come from the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary:

  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.

=== WordNet

WordNet was used to help with the initial POS assignment:

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