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API Name	Description	Category	Followers	Versions
API Ninjas	API Ninjas provides dozens of powerful data APIs for developers. Try it today!	Data	40	REST v1.0
Word Game Dictionary	The Word Game Dictionary API offers a Scrabble Dictionary Verification method to determine if a word legal in Scrabble, sowpods and wwf (Words With Friends). The API will also return parts of speech...	Games	14	REST v1.0
XF English Dictionary	The XF English Dictionary API provides definitions, linguistic analysis, and related words for more than one million words and phrases. Get examples, synonyms, antonyms, pronunciations (including...	Dictionary	20	REST v1.0
Ancient Greek WordNet	Greek WordNet is a database of the Greek language from Mycenaean and of the Homeric epics, with planned chronological extension into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. The GreekWordNet...	Words	9	REST v1
Lexicala	Lexicala enables a multilingual lexical data platform that combines human-curated input and automatic language generation. The Lexicala API is a REST interface that provides access to monolingual,...	Dictionary	43	REST v1.0
Lingua Robot Dictionary	Lingua Robot API is a RESTful service providing an access to the data of over 800 000 English lexical entries, such as words, phrasal verbs, multiword expressions etc. The data includes: - Word...	Dictionary	27	REST v1.0
Intento	The Intento API is a single service to access Cognitive AI models from several vendors. All methods of the Intento API returns JSON responses and requires token based authentication and API key for...	Artificial Intelligence	66	REST v1.0
UrbanScraper	The UrbanScraper API provides Urban Dictionary definitions by passing the desired term in a GET call. The API relies on screen scraping with caching done on Heroku. JSON is preferred for responses,...	Language	23	REST
Rabbitique Glossarium	Rabbitique is a multilingual dictionary. It contains a vast knowledge about words from any written language. Think of a word and it will most likely find it. It provides and API for developers, too.	Languages	14	REST v1.0
Voicecup Pronunciation Dictionary	The Voicecup Pronunciation Dictionary API allows developers to programmatically search for pronunciations of words and word combinations in English, Spanish, Russian, and German. The Voicecup...	Dictionary	45	REST
Oxford Dictionaries	The Oxford Dictionaries API gives you access to our world-renowned dictionary data in an ever-growing list of languages. Based on our intensive language research programme – one of the largest in the...	Dictionary	142	REST v1
ABBYY Lingvo	The ABBYY Lingvo API provides users with access to the largest collection of Russian dictionaries including 140 dictionaries across 15 languages. Categories include general, professional, thematic...	Translation	45	REST v1.1
Wordnik Swagger	The Wordnik Swagger API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Wordnik with other applications through Open API standards. Some example API methods include retrieving...	Reference	24	REST v2
OwlBot Dictionary	The OwlBot Dictionary API allows developers to get definitions and, in some cases, example sentences for English words. OwlBot searches the internet for English vocabulary definitions and saves them...	Dictionary	64	Version REST v 2.0 Deactivated REST v 3.0 Recommended REST v 4.0 Recommended RPC v 1 Deactivated
SYSTRAN Dictionary	The SYSTRAN Dictionary API enables users to search for the translation of words, with additional contextual information such as grammatical information, frequency of the meanings, domains and...	Dictionary	21	REST v1
English Dictionary	[This API is no longer available and this page is being maintained purely for historical and research purposes.] The English Dictionary API is a simple RESTful API for obtaining dictionary...	Dictionary	71	REST
Twinword Word Associations	Twinwords Word Associations API gets word associations with semantic distance score. Because it aims to work with more than just synonyms, users can get related words of the same family like "cats"...	Text	13	REST v1
Yandex Dictionary	Yandex, a European internet company, provides this dictionary API. Yandex Dictionary uses standard HTTP with access via XML or JSON interfaces. Use of the API requires an API Key which is available...	Dictionary	24	REST
Words	WordsAPI is a RESTful API that allows a user to query a database of definitions for over 150,000 words in the English language. The API can also respond with specific details for a word, including...	Dictionary	96	REST
Internet Acronym Server	Silmaril is an international management consultant company that also has an accessible collection of acronyms thru the web. The Internet Acronym Server API allows developers to integrate this service...	Language	7	REST
GlobalNLP	GlobalNLP handles a wide variety of natural language processing tasks in 20 (yes, twenty) languages. The functionality we support includes but is not limited to: Word-sense disambiguation...	Natural Language Processing	17	REST
Hablaa Dictionary Translation	Hablaa offers multi-language translation services completed by a team of native speaker and reviewed by professional translators to ensure quality. The Hablaa Dictionary Translation API allows...	Translation	26	REST
Tamil Dictionary	The online Tamil Dictionary (அகராதி) draws on multiple dictionaries to provide detailed descriptions of more than 100,000 Tamil words. The Tamil Dictionary API allows users to get the dictionary...	Reference	28	REST
OneLook Dictionary Search	OneLook Dictionary Search is a search engine for word and phrase definitions. The site has indexed almost 19 million words from more than one thousand free dictionary web sites. The OneLook...	Dictionary	23	REST
Twinword Word Graph Dictionary	A dictionary and so much more! Rich information for a word with definitions, associations, examples, and much more.	Tools	7	REST

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