# Third-Party Notices

## tabatkins/wordle-list

WordAxis broadens accepted guesses (not daily answers) using a pinned revision of the MIT-licensed `tabatkins/wordle-list` project, redistributed in this repository as `guess-words.txt`.

Source: `https://github.com/tabatkins/wordle-list`
Pinned commit: `255b9469c4dad99a3b95cc4ddbe139b3d3747868`

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2022 Tab Atkins Jr.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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SOFTWARE.

## English Speller Database / SCOWL

WordAxis answer-pool generation uses the official US English wordlist and metadata from the English Speller Database (ESDB, formerly SCOWL), release `rel-2026.02.25`, maintained by Kevin Atkinson and the en-wl project.

Source: `https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist-diff/tree/rel-2026.02.25`

Copyright 2000-2026 by Kevin Atkinson

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell any part of SCOWLv2, or word lists created from it, is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the above copyright notice and this notice appear in supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations about the suitability of this database for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.

WordAxis uses the official non-Australian size-60 speller dictionary as its dictionary-validity source and the ESDB metadata only to select common lowercase headwords. It does not redistribute the ESDB database itself.