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| # 📖 Shiritori Bot Dictionary Guidelines
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| The **Super Shiritori Bot Dictionary** is a carefully maintained word list that powers all gameplay. It contains **over 750,000 words**, handpicked and auto-expanded with intelligent logic to balance fairness, creativity, and linguistic curiosity.
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| Unlike traditional dictionaries, ours blends standard English, culturally relevant references, and gameplay-specific terms. Here’s how it all works.
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| ## ✅ What **IS** Accepted
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| ### 🗣️ Standard English Vocabulary
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| * Core of the dictionary. Includes:
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| * Common nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
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| * Plurals, verb conjugations (e.g., `run`, `ran`, `running`)
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| * Comparative/superlative forms (e.g., `faster`, `fastest`)
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| * Compound nouns (e.g., `ice-cream`, `mother-in-law`)
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| ### 🌍 Culturally Significant Proper Nouns
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| #### ✅ **Places**
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| * Countries, cities, continents, regions, and well-known landmarks
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| → e.g., `japan`, `europe`, `eiffel`
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| #### ✅ **Characters & Media**
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| * Widely recognized fictional characters, species, or concepts
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| → e.g., `pikachu`, `hogwarts`, `kryptonite`
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| > ❗ **Note:** These are **not** exhaustively curated. They are only added when **suggested** by players and pass review.
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| #### ✅ **Names (Conditional)**
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| * Famous people *only* if the name is:
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| * Used metaphorically or generically (e.g., `john`, `bill`)
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| * Part of a well-known phrase or cultural reference
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| → e.g., `napoleon-complex`, `john-doe`
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| * Most personal names are **not** accepted.
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| ### 🌐 Foreign Terms (Integrated into English)
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| * Foreign-origin words commonly used in English
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| → e.g., `déjà-vu`, `rendezvous`, `resume`
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| * Stored **normalized**: Accents/diacritics are flattened (e.g., `touché` → `touche`)
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| ### 🔤 Acronyms & Expanded Phrases
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| * Common acronyms and their **hyphenated expansions** are both valid:
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| → `scuba`, `self-contained-underwater-breathing-apparatus`
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| → `nasa`, `national-aeronautics-and-space-administration`
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| → `mlmsthpgldglstppcchcmtm`, which stands for a long list of political ideologies (see: [Ideology Strings](#ideologies))
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| ### 🔢 Numbers as Words
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| * Large numbers are only accepted if **used in a real, documented context**.
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| * Example:
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| → `one-fifty-one-thousand-six-hundred` is valid, because it appears in *"Rest Employed"* by The Stupendium:
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| > “One-fifty-one-thousand-six-hundred people die every day on Earth…”
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| * Powers of ten (e.g., `googol`, `centillion`) and their **plural forms** are also valid.
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| * Numbers like `151601` or `fifty-two-thousand-eight` are **not** accepted unless cited in media or verified documentation.
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| ## ❌ What is **Not** Accepted
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| ### ❌ Nonexistent / Gibberish Words
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| * Random strings, typos, or invented combinations
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| → e.g., `xqwbno`, `asdfgh`
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| ### ❌ Obscure Proper Nouns
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| * Unrecognized places, indie characters, niche franchises
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| * Exceptions are made only if a term gains widespread use
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| ### ❌ Most Names
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| * Personal names that do not have wider metaphorical, pop culture, or dictionary presence
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| → e.g., `jacob`, `ashley` (unless dual-meaning or heavily used)
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| ### ❌ Purely Foreign Words
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| * Words that have not been adopted into English usage
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| → e.g., rare terms in Finnish, Swahili, etc. unless borrowed
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| ### ❌ Invalid Characters
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| * Words containing:
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| * Numbers (unless **fully written** or alphabetized like `glock-eighteen`)
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| * Symbols other than:
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| * `-` (hyphen)
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| * `'` (apostrophe)
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| ### ❌ Words Over 250 Characters
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| * Words longer than **250 characters** are **auto-rejected**
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| * May be reevaluated if usage proves significant (see: `krung-thep-mahanakhon...` at 188 characters — accepted due to its association with "Bangkok")
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| ## 🧠 Special Cases & Philosophy
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| ### 💬 Urban Dictionary Entries
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| * Not valid **unless independently verified** in other public sources
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| * Slang must appear in mainstream media, dictionaries, or major online platforms
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| ### 🏢 Stock Market Acronyms
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| * Acronyms from financial markets (e.g., `nasdaq`, `spy`) are accepted if common in English writing
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| ### 🏙️ Long Place Names & Abbreviations
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| * Extremely long city/state names (e.g., Bangkok’s full ceremonial name) are accepted *only if* a recognizable **acronym or shortened version** is in common use
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| → `krung-thep-mahanakhon-...` is valid **because** it expands to `bangkok`
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| ### 🧠 Ideologies (Compound Forms)
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| * Strings of ideological terms are accepted *if* the acronym is:
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| * Used
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| * Suggested
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| * Reasonably understandable as a compound
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| → Example:
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| ```
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| Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Stalinism-Trotskyism-Hoxhaism-Posadism-Gaddafism-Luxembourgism-Dengism-Guevarism-Longism-Strasserism-Titoism-Pol-Potism-Castroism-Chavism-Ho-Chi-Minh-Thought-Mugabeism
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| ```
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| **Acronym:** `mlmsthpgldglstppcchcmtm`
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| ## 💌 Suggest New Words
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| Want to contribute? Use the `/suggest` command!
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| * All suggestions are **manually reviewed**
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| * We check for:
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| * Documented use
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| * Cultural relevance
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| * Alignment with game balance
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| * If unclear, we may DM you for clarification
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| 📌 **Note:** Not every suggestion will be accepted — but each one is appreciated.
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| This dictionary is always growing. Its goal is not to be exhaustive, but to be **fun**, **fair**, and **faithful** to how language is actually used in games, stories, and life.
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| Would you like to split this into subpages (e.g., `Long Words`, `Acronym Rules`, `Number Rules`) or keep it as one full wiki page for now?
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