Dictionary Information

📖 Shiritori Bot Dictionary Guidelines

The Super Shiritori Bot Dictionary is a carefully maintained word list that powers all gameplay. It contains over 950,000 words, handpicked and auto-expanded with intelligent logic to balance fairness, creativity, and linguistic curiosity.

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

🗣️ Standard English Vocabulary

• Core of the dictionary. Includes:
  • Common nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs
  • Plurals, verb conjugations (e.g., run, ran, running)
  • Comparative/superlative forms (e.g., faster, fastest)
  • Compound nouns (e.g., ice-cream, mother-in-law)

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🌍 Culturally Significant Proper Nouns

✅ Places

• Countries, cities, continents, regions, and well-known landmarks → e.g., japan, europe, eiffel

✅ Characters & Media

• Widely recognized fictional characters, species, or concepts → e.g., pikachu, hogwarts, kryptonite

❗ Note: These are not exhaustively curated. They are only added when suggested by players and pass review.

✅ Names (Conditional)

• Famous people only if the name is:
  • Used metaphorically or generically (e.g., john, bill)
  • Part of a well-known phrase or cultural reference → e.g., napoleon-complex, john-doe
• Most personal names are not accepted.

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🌐 Foreign Terms (Integrated into English)

• Foreign-origin words commonly used in English → e.g., déjà-vu, rendezvous, resume
• Stored normalized: Accents/diacritics are flattened (e.g., touché → touche)

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🔤 Acronyms & Expanded Phrases

• Common acronyms and their hyphenated expansions are both valid: → scuba, self-contained-underwater-breathing-apparatus → nasa, national-aeronautics-and-space-administration → mlmsthpgldglstppcchcmtm, which stands for a long list of political ideologies (see: Ideology Strings)

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🔢 Numbers as Words

• Large numbers are only accepted if used in a real, documented context.
  • Example: → one-fifty-one-thousand-six-hundred is valid, because it appears in "Rest Employed" by The Stupendium:

    “One-fifty-one-thousand-six-hundred people die every day on Earth…”

• Powers of ten (e.g., googol, centillion) and their plural forms are also valid.
• 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

❌ Nonexistent / Gibberish Words

• Random strings, typos, or invented combinations → e.g., xqwbno, asdfgh

❌ Obscure Proper Nouns

• Unrecognized places, indie characters, niche franchises
• Exceptions are made only if a term gains widespread use

❌ Most Names

• Personal names that do not have wider metaphorical, pop culture, or dictionary presence → e.g., jacob, ashley (unless dual-meaning or heavily used)

❌ Purely Foreign Words

• Words that have not been adopted into English usage → e.g., rare terms in Finnish, Swahili, etc. unless borrowed

❌ Invalid Characters

• Words containing:
  • Numbers (unless fully written or alphabetized like glock-eighteen)
  • Symbols other than:
    • - (hyphen)
    • ' (apostrophe)

❌ Words Over 250 Characters

• Words longer than 250 characters are auto-rejected
• 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

💬 Urban Dictionary Entries

• Not valid unless independently verified in other public sources
• Slang must appear in mainstream media, dictionaries, or major online platforms

🏢 Stock Market Acronyms

• Acronyms from financial markets (e.g., nasdaq, spy) are accepted if common in English writing

🏙️ Long Place Names & Abbreviations

• 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 → krung-thep-mahanakhon-... is valid because it expands to bangkok

🧠 Ideologies (Compound Forms)

• Strings of ideological terms are accepted if the acronym is:
  • Used
  • Suggested
  • Reasonably understandable as a compound → Example: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Stalinism-Trotskyism-Hoxhaism-Posadism-Gaddafism-Luxembourgism-Dengism-Guevarism-Longism-Strasserism-Titoism-Pol-Potism-Castroism-Chavism-Ho-Chi-Minh-Thought-Mugabeism Acronym: mlmsthpgldglstppcchcmtm

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💌 Suggest New Words

Want to contribute? Use the /suggest command!

• All suggestions are manually reviewed
• We check for:
  • Documented use
  • Cultural relevance
  • Alignment with game balance
• If unclear, we may DM you for clarification

📌 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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