Wordnik

API

Website

https://www.wordnik.com

Description

Wordnik is a dictionary API and lexical resource that provides definitions, examples, pronunciations, and related words for developers. It offers comprehensive English language data for applications that need dictionary or vocabulary functionality.

Status Page

https://status.wordnik.com/

Active Incidents

Last refresh: 2026-03-22 01:58 UTC (7m ago)

🛑 Wordnik API (random word) is down

Investigating

In [`cabfc8d`](https://github.com/wordnik/wordnik-status/commit/cabfc8dd6355bccaeb2b8f8660dd19b5de7c1b69 ), Wordnik API (random word) (https://api.wordnik.com/v4/words.json/randomWord?hasDictionaryDef=true&maxCorpusCount=-1&minDictionaryCount=1&maxDictionaryCount=-1&minLength=5&maxLength=-1&api_key=$API_KEY) was **down**: - HTTP code: 429 - Response time: 63 ms

Incident

Started: 2026-02-15 19:44 UTC (Feb 15, 2026)

Updated: 2026-02-15 19:44 UTC (Feb 15, 2026)