Open Data
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Boosh uses word-list data from a number of open-data and community-maintained sources. This page records those sources, acknowledges their creators, and provides applicable licence and download information.
Irish word lists
The Irish word lists used by Boosh are derived from the Irish Word Frequency List created by Michal Boleslav Měchura.
The original database and Boosh’s derived Irish word lists are made available under the Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL) .
Changes made for Boosh
The original data was processed to create word lists suitable for a five-letter word puzzle. The processing included:
- Normalizing words to Unicode NFC
- Restricting entries to words containing five Unicode letters
- Converting entries to lowercase
- Removing duplicate entries
- Retaining source frequency information when selecting answers
- Sorting the resulting files using Irish-language collation
Download
A machine-readable copy of the Irish word lists used by Boosh is available free of charge:
Download the Boosh Irish word lists
The archive contains:
accepted.json— words accepted as valid guessesanswers.json— words eligible to be answersREADME.md— source and processing informationLICENSE.txt— applicable licence information
Contains information from the Irish Word Frequency List , which is made available under the Open Database License 1.0 .
German word-list acknowledgements
The German accepted-guess list is derived from the public-domain Free German Dictionary and filtered to entries suitable for Boosh.
The German answer list was ranked using German OpenSubtitles 2018 frequency data from the FrequencyWords project . FrequencyWords content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 .
The lists were also filtered using the German data from the List of Dirty, Naughty, Obscene, and Otherwise Bad Words , which is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 .
The source data was filtered and modified for Boosh. These acknowledgements do not imply that any of the source projects or their contributors endorse Boosh.
Scope
The licences described on this page apply only to the word-list data identified above. They do not apply to the Boosh application, source code, artwork, branding, or other project materials unless explicitly stated.
Contact
For questions about Boosh word-list sources, licensing, or open data, contact Matt Finucane at me@mattfinucane.com.