Credits and licences
Last updated 2026-10-10
Our own code
The tools and page layouts are written for this site. The pages make no requests to other servers.
Third-party material
No third-party code is used. The topic word lists and sentence sets were written for this site. The dictionary used by the Jumble Solver and by the alternate-answer check comes from the data sets below. The file and its licence notice are at /data/words.txt and /data/words.LICENSE.txt.
| Name | Used for | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| dwyl/english-words (words_alpha.txt) | English word list behind the Jumble Solver and the check that a scramble is not itself a real word (filtered and cleaned; only the words are used) | Unlicense (public domain dedication) |
| Open English WordNet | Lemma lists used to remove proper nouns and abbreviations from the word list (no WordNet text is included) | CC BY 4.0 — Open English WordNet team and contributors |
| Tatoeba | Word counts from English sentences, used to rank solver results from common to rare (only counts are used, no sentences) | CC0 1.0 |
| Wikipedia (English) | Word-occurrence counts from a sample of articles, used to filter the word list and rank results (no article text is included) | Counts only; articles are CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Trademarks
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