A list of all valid English words, according to Exploding Kittens
In November of 2021, I sent the following email to support@explodingkittens.com:
Hi! My name is Mack. I'm a software developer and I'd like to build a bot to play A Little Wordy. Before I can do that, I need a list of words that are considered valid. As far as I can tell, the website only provides an endpoint for checking the validity of individual words - there's no exhaustive list of all valid words. Would you consider making one available? If not, my plan is to find some exhaustive list of English words, check the validity of each word using your API, and publish the list of all valid words to GitHub.
I got the following reply:
Thanks for reaching out! Hmm, I don't think we have that list available at this time. Your best bet would be to use the Scrabble Dictionary.
Hence this repository.
The script fetches existing lists of English words. It normalizes and deduplicates the results, and then queries the Exploding Kittens Dictionary API to determine which words are valid. Results are written to a file specified on the command line.
Installation:
python3.8 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements/requirements.txt
Example invocation:
python script.py --output words.txt