wort

Get definitions for multiple English words at once. Simply enter a list of comma-separated words and hit the "Get Definitions" button.

Dictionary sources:

• WordNet 3.1
• Spelling (in IPA notation) English Spelling DictData
• example sentences come from Tatoeba project
• Thesaurus comes from WordNet 3.0

Tested with Python 3.8.0a3

Blocked words - Sources:

• https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/resources/bad-words.txt
• https://github.com/DivineOmega/is_offensive/blob/master/resources/BadWords.json
• https://github.com/ben174/profanity/blob/master/profanity/data/wordlist.txt

Other resources

• Icons https://www.ikonate.com/

Stats

There are:

• 146625 unique words in the DB
• 206353 word definitions as many words have multiple meanings
• out of all unique words 57275 spellings in IPA notation
• 370366 example English sentences
• approx 20000 expressions in the thesaurus

Benchmarks

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Searching for 20k most common English words as determined by n-gram frequency analysis of the Google's Trillion Word Corpus, takes around 0.0158s. Out of those words only 542 definitions weren't found.

Searching for random unordered 1000 words takes around: 0.000804s

TODO

• generate Anki flash-cards
• get word definitions directly from a CSV file

Docker

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Build image

    docker build -t wort:latest .

Run the container

    docker run --rm --name web wort run.py

Run the app by mounting local host src dir

    docker run -d -p 5000:5000 --name web --rm -v ~/git/wort:/app wort /app/run.py

Get the logs

    docker logs web -f