Word List Credits

The word lists used by the random words generator for memory competitions are adapted from Open English WordNet, and the SCOWL word lists were used to judge how common a word is.

Open English WordNet

Open English WordNet 2025 is derived from Princeton WordNet. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Changes were made. Single lowercase words were selected by category and by how common they are, sorted into concrete nouns, verbs and abstract nouns, and reviewed by hand. No definitions or relations are reproduced.

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SCOWL

SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) 2020.12.07 was read only to judge how common a word is, by checking whether a word appears in its size 10, 20 and 35 lists. No SCOWL file is reproduced here.

The collective work is Copyright 2000-2018 by Kevin Atkinson as well
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  Copyright 2000-2018 by Kevin Atkinson

  Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
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  about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
  "as is" without express or implied warranty.

SCOWL draws on other word lists, and their own notices are listed in its Copyright file, which is part of the SCOWL download.