cuss

Map of profanities, slurs, and obscenities to a sureness rating.

Contents

• What is this?
• When should I use this?
• Install
• Use
• API
  • cuss
• Data
• Types
• Compatibility
• Related
• Contributing
• Security
• License

What is this?

This package exposes lists of profane words in several languages. This rating does not represent how vulgar a term is. It represents how likely it is to be used as either profanity or clean text.

When should I use this?

Use this for researching natural language. Don’t use it to make a “profanity filter”. Those are bad.

Install

This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 14.14+, 16.0+), install with npm:

npm install cuss

In Deno with esm.sh:

import {cuss} from 'https://esm.sh/cuss@2'

In browsers with esm.sh:

<script type="module">
  import {cuss} from 'https://esm.sh/cuss@2?bundle'
</script>

Use

import {cuss} from 'cuss'
import {cuss as cussPt} from 'cuss/pt'

console.log(Object.keys(cuss).length) // 1776
console.log(Object.keys(cussPt).length) // 173

console.log(cuss.beaver) // 0
console.log(cuss.asshat) // 2

console.log(cussPt.burro) // 1
console.log(cussPt.bixa) // 2

API

cuss exports the following entries:

• cuss — English
• cuss/ar-latn — Arabic (Latin)
• cuss/es — Spanish
• cuss/fr — French
• cuss/it — Italian
• cuss/pt — Portuguese
• cuss/pt-pt — European Portuguese

Each entry exports the identifier cuss. There are no default exports.

cuss

Map of offensive words to a sureness rating (Record<string, number>).

Each rating is a number between 0 and 2 (both including), representing the certainty the key is used as a profanity depending on context.

Rating	Use as a profanity	Use in clean text	Example
2	likely	unlikely	asshat
1	maybe	maybe	addict
0	unlikely	likely	beaver

Data

• cuss — ± 1770 English profane words and phrases from Luis von Ahn’s Research Group (Carnegie Mellon), the List of ethnic slurs from WikiPedia, and many contributions since)
• cuss/ar-latn — ± 250 Arabic (Latin) profane words and phrases from naughty-words and youswear
• cuss/es — ± 650 Spanish profane words and phrases from naughty-words, revistagq.com, taringa.net, mundoxat.om
• cuss/fr — ± 740 French profane words and phrases from wiktionary.org
• cuss/it — ± 800 Italian profane words and phrases from Italian profanity (WikiPedia); Italian slang Italian offensive terms Italian dialectal terms Italian jocular terms (Wiktionary); Parole oscene (Treccani); and chucknorris-io/swear-words
• cuss/pt — ± 148 Portuguese profane words from aprenderpalavras.com
• cuss/pt-pt — ± 45 Portuguese (European) profane words from wikipedia and common culture

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript. It exports no additional types.

Compatibility

This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 14.14+ and 16.0+. It also works in Deno and modern browsers.

Related

• buzzwords — list of buzzwords
• dale-chall — list of familiar American-English words (1995)
• fillers — list of filler words
• hedges — list of hedge words
• profanities — list of the same profane words, but without the sureness
• spache — list of simple American-English words (1974)
• weasels — list of weasel words

Contributing

Yes please! See How to Contribute to Open Source.

New terms can be added to the corresponding files as listed in the support section.

To add a new language, create a new JS file with a BCP 47 language tag as its name (lower case, dashes, and preferred and normalized).

After changing something, run npm install to install all required dependencies, then npm test to update: the project includes some scripts to make sure everything is in order. Note that the tests require Node.js 18.0+. Finally, open a pull request.

Security

This package is safe.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer