Dictionary sources and licenses

English and Chinese

ECDICT

English headwords, Chinese meanings, frequency metadata, morphology, and selected definitions. Source revision bc015ed2e24a7abef49fc6dbbb7fe32c1dadaf8b. Licensed under the MIT License. Source.

opencc-js

Build-time conversion of Simplified Chinese meanings to Traditional Chinese. Licensed under the MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses. Source.

Japanese overlay

WikDict English-Japanese

English-to-Japanese candidate meanings generated from Wiktionary through DBnary. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. WordHint normalizes, ranks, and filters the source data. Source.

JMdict

Japanese terms, English sense glosses, parts of speech, usage restrictions, and priority metadata. Copyright James William Breen and the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group (EDRDG). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 under the EDRDG General Dictionary Licence Statement. WordHint reverses selected sense records and applies additional ranking. Source and license.

Japanese WordNet

Japanese lexicalizations aligned to Princeton WordNet synsets. WordHint keeps only selected mappings and validates them against its English sense inventory. Source and license.

Princeton WordNet and ejdict-hand

Princeton WordNet is used for English synset alignment under its WordNet license. ejdict-hand is a CC0 fallback candidate source. WordNet; ejdict-hand.

Korean overlay

Korean Basic Dictionary

Sense-level Korean headwords, parts of speech, vocabulary grades, and English equivalents supplied by the National Institute of Korean Language. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 KR. WordHint reverses and aligns selected records to its English sense inventory. Only lexical text is used; linked media and third-party quoted examples are not redistributed. Official dictionary; pinned XML mirror.

Babylon English-Korean and Kengdic

Legacy lemma-level candidates are retained only as lower-confidence fallback sources while provenance and sense alignment are checked. Babylon English-Korean is used under the MIT License. Kengdic, created by Joe Speigle and originally hosted at ezcorean, is used under the LGPL 2.0 or later license branch. Babylon source and license; Kengdic source and selected license.

French and Russian overlays

WikDict English-French and English-Russian

English-to-French and English-to-Russian candidate meanings generated from Wiktionary through DBnary. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. WordHint normalizes, ranks, and filters the source data. Source.

WOLF (Wordnet Libre du Français)

French lexicalizations aligned to WordNet synsets, distributed through Open Multilingual WordNet 1.4 under the CeCILL-C free software license. WordHint keeps only selected mappings and validates them against its English sense inventory. License.

Mueller English-Russian Dictionary

Lemma-level Russian candidate meanings from the 24th edition of Mueller's English-Russian dictionary, used under GPLv2 or later as a lower-confidence fallback while sense alignment is checked.

Arabic overlay

Al-Mawrid Al-Hadeeth English-Arabic

Primary English-to-Arabic candidate meanings from Al-Mawrid Al-Hadeeth. Licensed under the MIT License. WordHint extracts Arabic meaning runs, discards alphabet section markers and other noise, then ranks and filters the remaining text. Source.

Arabic WordNet 2

Arabic lexicalizations aligned to WordNet synsets, distributed through Open Multilingual WordNet 1.4 under CC BY-SA 3.0. WordHint keeps only selected mappings and validates them against its English sense inventory.

Share-alike dictionary assets

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