Dictionary data and licences

Last updated 17 August 2026

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Definitions — English and French

Derived from Wiktionary, © Wiktionary contributors, dual-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence (CC BY-SA) and the GNU Free Documentation Licence (GFDL).

Extraction

Structured data extracted with Wiktextract via kaikki.org — Tatu Ylonen, “Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data”, Proceedings of LREC 2022. The extracted data carries the same licence as the Wiktionary source.

French inflections

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Everything else

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Corrections

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