The Data - Linguabase

Below is real Linguabase output—the same data and formats behind every puzzle we generate. Browse associations, definitions, clues, word families, and usage examples. The puzzle data was generated by our pipeline; the vocabulary slice is from our word ranking.

Puzzle Data

25 complete puzzles, each with 10 categories and 10 words per category. Every word carries a difficulty score (1–9). The TSV format is what we ship—compact enough for app bundles, readable enough to debug by eye.

linguabase-sample · 25 puzzles · 250 categories · 2,500 words

↓ TSV (27 KB) ↓ JSON (136 KB)

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Each category is a concept (BIOPICS, IMPASSES, BATEAUX) with words ordered by difficulty. Easy words come first (difficulty 1–3), hard words last (7–9). Your game decides how many to use and where to set the threshold.

Clues

Short clues for word puzzles—1 to 5 words, multiple angles per term, plus giveaway hints. These are separate from the longer, sentence-style definitions (see below)—clues are terse hints for gameplay, not explanations.

clues · sample of 150 clues

Word	Clue 1	Clue 2	Clue 3	More Obvious

Vocabulary

A slice of the word ranking layer: words starting with E, ranked by familiarity. The full dataset covers 400K words from common (rank under 10K) through educated (10K–100K) to technical (100K+). Multi-word expressions like “early bird” and “electric eel” are included.

vocabulary — words starting with E · 1,297 of ~13K E-words · 400K total vocabulary

Word	Rank	Familiarity

Associations

We store roughly 100 associations per word, weighted by strength. Puzzle packs typically ship around 20—the strongest connections across all senses. Positions 1–15 are what a player would see first.

coreGraphs · 12 of 400K headwords · showing top 15 of ~100 stored

Headword	Top 15 Associations
bolt	nut, screw, rush, cloth, dash, flee, make a bolt for, latch, lightning, bolt of lightning, sprint, roll, lock, fastener, bolt-action
bridge	crossing, truss, span, bridge the gap, arch, bidding, suspension, suspension cables, viaduct, implant, duplicate, contract, trump, abutment, causeway
crane	whooping, heron, sandhill, hoist, derrick, tower crane, stork, egret, gantry, jib, demoiselle, wading, boom, crowned, pulley
crown	scepter, throne, sovereign, regalia, diadem, empress, coronation, crown prince, royalty, apex, jeweled, zenith, top of the head, divine right, thorns
diamond	sapphire, graphite, carbon, emerald, Hope Diamond, blood diamond, luster, ruby, hardness, diamond cut, baseball, baseball diamond, kimberlite, gemstone, carat
elephant	tusk, pachyderm, trunk, elephant in the room, hippopotamus, mammoth, African elephant, Asian elephant, ivory, savanna, giraffe, Ganesh, lion, proboscidean, poaching
frost	rime, icy, bitter, frozen, freezing, frostbite, snow, crystalline, hoarfrost, crisp, chill, hoar, frost pattern, ground frost, Jack Frost
honey	apiary, hive, honey bee, busy bee, thick, nectar, golden, comb, manuka, syrup, sweet, propolis, sugar, royal jelly, honey pot
jazz	saxophone, scat, groove, syncopation, solo, New Orleans, speakeasy, jazz club, call and response, Louis Armstrong, improvisation, big band, riff, jazz standard, polyrhythm
key	unlock, lock and key, cipher, keystone, key player, padlock, encryption, door, keycard, key card access, cryptography, access, fob, signature, transpose
mercury	quicksilver, Freddie Mercury, liquid metal, amalgam, dental amalgam, thermometer, rising temperatures, cinnabar, mercurial, Mercury retrograde, Roman god, planet Mercury, thimerosal, mad hatter, hatter
toast	cheers, raise a glass, toaster, butter, jam, clink, speech, toast of the town, champagne, breakfast, bread, warm bread, sliced bread, crispy, burnt

Crane covers the bird, the machine, and the gesture. Mercury spans the element, the planet, the god, and Freddie Mercury. Every sense surfaces in the association list.

Definitions

400K readable definitions covering all major senses of each word—written at 45–65 words, usage examples in italics. Built for game clues, not dictionary lookup.

definitions · 12 of 400K · 7-tier priority system

bolt

A bolt may be a threaded fastener (nuts and bolts), an arrow (shoot a bolt), a flash of lightning, or a sliding mechanism: Pull on the bolt to unlock the door. To bolt is to move or depart rapidly: He bolted from the scene of the crime. If a plant bolts, it produces seed earlier than is desired. A different verb bolt is used only of flour; if you bolt flour, you sift it through a cloth or sieve.

bridge

A bridge is a structure that carries a road or path over water or some other obstacle or depression. This connecting feature gives rise to many other meanings that share an element of joining or spanning: The halfway house serves a bridge between addiction and the return to society. Bridge can also denote an anatomical feature, a dental appliance, or a passage in music. As a verb, bridge means to connect: a grant that will bridge the gap in funding. The card game bridge is separately derived.

crane

A crane is a large, long-legged wading bird known for its graceful neck and elaborate mating dances. The bird’s shape inspired the name for lifting machines—tall structures with long arms used to hoist and move heavy loads: Construction cranes dominated the skyline. To crane is to stretch one’s neck for a better view: She craned her neck to see over the crowd. A crane shot in film moves the camera on such a device.

crown

A crown is the top of something. Fancy headwear for royalty is typically a crown, but you may be awarded a crown for a victory in a competition: The spelling champ was accorded the division crown. A decayed tooth may need to be topped with a crown. When you crown someone, you may literally place a crown on their head, symbolically elevate them to a new rank, or just award them a prize. Something at the top also crowns: Ancient ruins crown the hilltop.

diamond

Diamond is a form of pure carbon and the hardest known mineral. A diamond is a piece of this, especially one cut to a symmetrical shape for jewelry or some technical function. A much less rare and valuable diamond is the four-sided shape of a slightly squashed square or rectangle; this symbol is also one of the suits in playing cards. Baseball is played on a field with roughly this shape that is called a diamond.

elephant

An elephant is a massive land mammal with thick gray skin, a long trunk, and large ears, native to Africa and Asia. Elephants are the largest living land animals. The phrase elephant in the room describes an obvious problem everyone ignores. A white elephant is a burdensome possession or an expensive gift of little use. To have a memory like an elephant is to remember everything.

frost

Frost is the thin layer of ice crystals that forms on cold surfaces when water vapor freezes: frost on the windshield, frost on the grass. Frost also refers to freezing temperatures: an early frost killed the tomatoes. To frost is to cover with frosting (icing on a cake) or to make glass opaque. Figuratively, frosty behavior is cold and unfriendly.

honey

Honey is a sweet, viscous substance made by bees from flower nectar. It serves as a natural sweetener: Do you want honey in your tea? The color and flavor vary by the flowers bees visit. As a term of endearment, honey addresses loved ones affectionately: Honey, I’m home. Something described as a honey is exceptionally good: That car is a honey.

jazz

Jazz is a genre of American music originating in the early twentieth century, characterized by improvisation, syncopated rhythms, and complex harmonies. It emerged from Black communities in New Orleans, blending African musical traditions with blues and ragtime. Beyond music, jazz can mean liveliness or excitement, and all that jazz dismisses accompanying details as unimportant. To jazz something up is to make it more interesting or lively.

key

The commonest and oldest use of key is for an object that opens a lock: car key, card key. The implicit idea of a thing essential for the use of something else has imbued key with an important adjectival role: the candidates avoided many of the key issues. If one thing is keyed to another, one either depends on, or provides, a reference to the other: she keyed her sermon to the congregation’s need for comfort. The small island called a key is separately derived.

mercury

Mercury is a silver-white metallic element that remains liquid at room temperature, also called quicksilver. It flows and beads distinctively, historically used in thermometers, barometers, and dental fillings before its toxicity was fully understood. The adjective mercurial, meaning volatile or unpredictable, derives from the planet rather than the element directly. The mercury rose to 98 degrees.

toast

Toast is bread browned by heat, typically in a toaster or under a broiler: buttered toast, toast and jam. To toast is to brown food this way, or to warm oneself: toasting by the fire. A toast is also a ritual of raising glasses to honor someone or something: a toast to the bride and groom. To be toast is slang for being doomed or finished: If the boss finds out, you’re toast.

Word Families

Morphological groupings connect each word to its inflections, derivations, and etymological relatives. In games, these prevent trivial moves—a player who reaches frost can’t hop to frosty or frozen.

sameRoot · 12 of 396K families

Headword	Family Members
bolt	bolts, bolted, bolting, thunderbolt, deadbolt, unbolt, unbolted, unbolting, bolt-hole, bolt-action, eye bolt
bridge	crossing, bridges, bridging, viaduct, bridged, drawbridge, footbridge, bridgeless, bridgehead, bridgeable, bridge the gap, bridgeheads, bridgework, bridge loan
crane	cranes, craned, craning, tower crane, crane fly, crane operator, crane operators
crown	coronation, crowned, crowning, crowns, corona, corollary, coronet, coroner, crown jewels, uncrowned, coronal, coronary, crown of thorns, crown molding, crown prince
diamond	diamonds, adamant, diamondback, diamond dust, diamond ring, diamond rings, diamond jubilee, diamond saw, diamond in the rough
elephant	elephants, elephant shrew, elephantiasis, elephant ear, elephant seal, elephant in the room, elephant ears, elephant seals, elephant garlic
frost	frozen, frosty, frosting, frosted, defrost, frostbite, frosts, frostiness, defrosting, defrosted, defrosts, frostily, permafrost, frostings, defroster, frosted glass
honey	honeyed, honeymoon, honeycomb, honeys, honeydew, honeybee, honeybun, honeymoons, honeysuckle, honeybees, honeypot, honeycombed, honeybunch, honey badger, honey bee, honey mustard
jazz	jazzy, jazzed, jazzes, jazzing, jazzier, jazzman, jazziest, jazzmen
key	keys, keyboard, keyhole, keynote, keystone, keying, keyed, keyboards, keypad, keyword, keychain, keywords, keycard, keystones, keystroke, keyless, keyring
mercury	mercurial, mercuric chloride
toast	toasted, toaster, toasty, toasting, toasts, toasters, French toast, toastmaster, untoasted, toastiest, toastie, toaster oven

Usage Examples

1.5M literary quotations across 224K words, filtered by GPT-4.1 for appropriateness, memorability, and whether the word is central to the sentence’s meaning. Up to 10 per word, drawn from novels, essays, speeches, and journalism.

rateQuotes · 12 of 224K headwords · 1 of up to 10 quotes each

bolt

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 1929

bridge

“Crossing a bridge, you were mirrored in the water below—same height, same size feet, same courage.”

Lisa See, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, 2005

crane

“But the paneled room folded itself through a dozen impossible angles, tumbling away into cyberspace like an origami crane.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984

crown

“I never wanted the crown, it kept me from being my true self, but I was not permitted to refuse.”

Bernard Malamud, The Fixer, 1966

diamond

“The panorama was dazzling in the morning light, like the inside of a diamond; unbroken fields of snow stretched in all directions.”

Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 2005

elephant

“I didn’t know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture.”

Stephen King, The Dark Tower, 2004

frost

“And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.”

Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

honey

“We looked all around us through the honey’s gold light.”

Elizabeth Alexander, The New Yorker, 2015

jazz

“In all jazz, and especially in the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged.”

James Baldwin, The New Yorker, 1962

key

“Here was the key, but it unlocked nothing.”

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, The New Yorker, 2011

mercury

“Attempting to describe Boltanski’s devil is like trying to pick up mercury with a pair of pliers.”

Richard Flanagan, The New Yorker, 2013

toast

“Those are the days when we all drank one toast only: ‘No more wars.’”

J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1964

Content Filters

Difficulty Rankings

The Linguabase word ranking is an effective proxy for what words are known to a broad user base—from English language learners to native speakers with deep vocabularies:

Different games threshold differently. A crossword game might use words at rank 200K that a casual word game would skip. We deliver vocabulary at whatever threshold your game needs.

Delivery

Delivered as files you can embed (TSV, SQLite, JSON) or query via API. We’re flexible on format.

Common Questions

Linguabase is actively maintained—new vocabulary is added as words enter mainstream usage, connection weights are refined, and ongoing auditing catches edge cases.

Yes. We offer consulting on network operations (pathfinding, distance calculation) and can help with integration into your stack.

Rank	Examples	Assessment
~15K	reminds, talking	Common words everyone knows
~50K	skinhead, conflagration	Still widely recognized
~125K	apperception, surliest	Educated vocabulary
~300K	endolysin, phytogeographic	Technical/scientific terms
~400K	disendorsed, tannicity	Rare but real—our threshold

Layer	What It Contains	Scale
Vocabulary	Validated words with difficulty scores. Filter by obscurity, include or exclude proper nouns.	400K–2M words
Definitions	~55-word readable paragraphs in 2–3 flowing sentences covering all meanings naturally.	Coverage for nearly all vocabulary
Clues	Short hints for gameplay—1 to 5 words, multiple angles per term.	Coverage for all vocabulary
Content Filters	Hard block (offensive) + soft block (suggestive) word lists for content control.	~6K terms
Word Associations	~100 related words per entry on average, weighted by connection strength. Includes sense-level pools organized by meaning.	100M+ connections
Word Families	Morphological + etymological groupings (elephant → elephants, elephantine).	Coverage for nearly all vocabulary
Usage Examples	Illustrative quotations—common words from literature, uncommon words from Wikipedia and open-access sources.	1.5M quotes