Wordnik

liveReferenceBooks

Wordnik — English-language dictionary API: definitions, examples, pronunciations, frequency, related words, and word-of-the-day.

12tools
0msauth
free tier50 calls/day

Tools

definitions

Fetch dictionary definitions for a word from Wordnik; filter by part of speech, source dictionary, and limit. Returns definitions with source, text, and part of speech.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
examples

Usage examples.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
top_example

Return the single highest-quality usage example sentence for a word from Wordnik's corpus.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
phrases

Return common bigram phrases containing a word from Wordnik's corpus; wlmi parameter sets minimum mutual-information threshold.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
pronunciations

Return pronunciation strings (IPA, ahd, etc.) for a word from Wordnik; filter by source dictionary and format type.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
hyphenation

Return hyphenation breakpoints and syllable stress for a word from Wordnik's hyphenation endpoint.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
frequency

Return year-by-year corpus frequency counts for a word from Wordnik; optionally constrain to a startYear–endYear range.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
word_of_the_day

Fetch the Wordnik Word of the Day for a given date (YYYY-MM-DD) or today if omitted; returns word, definitions, and example sentences.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
random_word

Return a single random word from Wordnik; filter by part of speech, min/max length, and minimum corpus or dictionary occurrence count.

No parameters required.

▶Try it
random_words

Return up to `limit` random words from Wordnik; filter by part of speech, min/max length, and minimum corpus or dictionary occurrence count.

No parameters required.

▶Try it

Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/wordnik/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/wordnik/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"definitions","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("definitions", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("wordnik — english-language dictionary api: definitions, examples, pronunciations, frequency, related words, and word-of-the-day");