Giving you the power to validate words

Oxford
English Wordlist

The Oxford English Wordlist enables developers to validate words and check spellings.

 

Collated and curated by our expert language technologists, the Oxford English Wordlist provides reliable, authoritative data in a flexible, platform-agnostic format with perpetual granted rights, enabling you to enhance your products.

 

The Oxford English Wordlist is available for licensing agreements, please get in touch with our team if you are interested in purchasing.

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The Oxford English Wordlist includes:

  • 480,000+ words from our world-leading British and American English content
  • Every main, variant, and inflected form in current use – including entries labelled offensive
  • Multi-word phrases, idioms, and proverbs – e.g. the proof of the pudding is in the eating
  • Broken and unbroken compounds – e.g. ad blocker, ad-blocker, and adblocker
  • Proper nouns, abbreviations, and symbols – e.g. Churchill, Sir Winston, NVP, and ?

Light

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Flexible

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Agile

Easily manage the data across any operating system with our platform-agnostic file format.

Reliable

Rely on data from the most trustworthy Oxford Languages-approved sources.

Authoritative

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