Dictionary Information

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1. 📖 Shiritori Bot Dictionary Guidelines

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. Unlike traditional dictionaries, ours blends standard English, culturally relevant references, and gameplay-specific terms. Here’s how it all works. ---

1. 1. ✅ What **IS** Accepted
      1. 🗣️ 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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1. 1. 1. 🌍 Culturally Significant Proper Nouns
         1. ✅ **Places**

• Countries, cities, continents, regions, and well-known landmarks

 → e.g., `japan`, `europe`, `eiffel`

1. 1. 1. 1. ✅ **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.

1. 1. 1. 1. ✅ **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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1. 1. 1. 🌐 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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1. 1. 1. 🔤 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](#ideologies))

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1. 1. 1. 🔢 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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1. 1. ❌ What is **Not** Accepted
      1. ❌ Nonexistent / Gibberish Words

• Random strings, typos, or invented combinations

 → e.g., `xqwbno`, `asdfgh`

1. 1. 1. ❌ Obscure Proper Nouns

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

1. 1. 1. ❌ 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)

1. 1. 1. ❌ Purely Foreign Words

• Words that have not been adopted into English usage

 → e.g., rare terms in Finnish, Swahili, etc. unless borrowed

1. 1. 1. ❌ Invalid Characters

• Words containing:

 * Numbers (unless **fully written** or alphabetized like `glock-eighteen`)
 * Symbols other than:
   * `-` (hyphen)
   * `'` (apostrophe)

1. 1. 1. ❌ 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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1. 1. 🧠 Special Cases & Philosophy
      1. 💬 Urban Dictionary Entries

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

1. 1. 1. 🏢 Stock Market Acronyms

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

1. 1. 1. 🏙️ 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`

1. 1. 1. 🧠 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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1. 1. 💌 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. --- 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. --- 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?