I Open-Sourced a ~200k Word English Dictionary
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Zoolander throwbacks aside, this is a complete OS dictionary dataset (prompt-engineered).
This dataset is a lean V1.0 and definitely a few "content bugs".
If this is your thing, I’d love contributors: feedback on UX, content bugs, PRs to improve the dataset, etc!
It's the first item in a larger suite of English language learning products I'm building.
Which English is this written in? American English?