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)

While the core dictionary focuses on English, many foreign-origin words are accepted — if they’ve become a recognized part of everyday English.

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✅ What’s Allowed

These are typically called loanwords — foreign terms that have been adopted into English through frequent usage in speech, writing, and media.

Examples:

Original	Accepted Form	Language
déjà-vu	deja-vu	French
touché	touche	French
résumé	resume	French
schadenfreude	schadenfreude	German
sushi	sushi	Japanese
tsundere	tsundere	Japanese (media slang)
fiesta	fiesta	Spanish
siesta	siesta	Spanish
karaoke	karaoke	Japanese
taco	taco	Spanish

These terms are valid because:

• They're commonly used in English.
• They appear in major dictionaries or English-language media.
• They’ve become culturally embedded, especially in entertainment, food, psychology, and internet slang.

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🛠️ Normalization of Special Characters

To maintain fairness and input consistency, all accented or non-Latin characters are normalized:

• Accents are flattened:
  • touché → touche
  • résumé → resume
• Ligatures are split or removed:
  • æ → ae, œ → oe
• Foreign letters like ñ, ç, ö, etc., are simplified:
  • jalapeño → jalapeno
  • façade → facade
  • über → uber

⚠️ The game internally stores all words using the simplified version, but it still accepts the accented form during input for convenience.

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❌ What’s Not Allowed

• Foreign words not used in English → If it’s not recognized or integrated, it’s excluded. → e.g., zwiebackbrot (pure German), matarpaneer (if not used in English menus/texts).
• Obscure regional slang or dialect terms → Must be clearly documented in English contexts.
• Words that only exist in dictionaries of other languages, with no English usage history.

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🔤 Acronyms & Expanded Phrases

In Word Bomb, acronyms are treated as valid entries — and so are their fully written-out, hyphenated forms. This creates more flexibility in gameplay while honoring how these acronyms function in English.

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✅ What’s Accepted

• Standard Acronyms: → nasa, scuba, radar, nato, lol, ily, wysiwyg
• Full Hyphenated Forms: → national-aeronautics-and-space-administration → self-contained-underwater-breathing-apparatus → what-you-see-is-what-you-get → i-love-you
• Ideological Acronym Clusters: → mlmsthpgldglstppcchcmtm → Stands for: marxism-leninism-maoism-stalinism-trotskyism-hoxhaism-posadism-gaddafism-luxembourgism-dengism-guevarism-longism-strasserism-titoism-pol-potism-castroism-chavism-ho-chi-minh-thought-mugabeism → All ideological components must be recognized terms individually.
• Technical or Niche Acronyms (if documented): → Like ram, cpu, gif, or sars — must be widespread and clearly defined.

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🔁 Hyphenated Rule (Deacronymization)

If a valid acronym exists, its deacronymized, hyphenated form is also valid.

Example:

Acronym	Hyphenated Phrase
scuba	self-contained-underwater-breathing-apparatus
nasa	national-aeronautics-and-space-administration
wysiwyg	what-you-see-is-what-you-get
ily	i-love-you

This is based on formatting logic introduced with wysiwyg, which is treated as both an acronym and its word-expansion.

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❌ What’s Not Allowed

• Random or User-Created Acronyms: → Acronyms must be widely used or documented — no made-up abbreviations.
• No Expansion? No Entry. → If an acronym has no widely accepted long-form, then its hyphenated form will not be added.
• Redundant Acronyms Without Word Use: → If the acronym isn’t used as a standalone word (e.g., never spoken/written as a unit), it’s excluded.

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🔢 Numbers as Words

Numbers are only allowed if they are treated as real words — meaning they must appear in documented, written, or spoken contexts as words, not just numerals.

✅ Valid Examples

• Written Numerals in Media or Song Lyrics: → one-fifty-one-thousand-six-hundred is accepted because it's the first lyric in Rest Employed by The Stupendium:

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

• Powers of Ten & Named Quantities: → hundred, thousand, million, billion, googol, centillion → Plurals are valid: millions, trillions
• Percent Phrases (1–100): → All values from one-percent to one-hundred-percent are accepted as written forms → Common in headlines, news, speeches (e.g., "The one-percent", "Seventy-five-percent of...")
• Compound Written Numbers (if documented): → Valid: two-thousand-twenty-four (if documented use found) → Not Valid: eight-hundred-seventy-two-thousand-six-hundred-seventy-eight (unless sourced)

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❌ Not Accepted

• Arbitrary Numbers Without Context: → 151601, 497, or eighty-one-thousand-five-hundred-thirteen — unless documented in real usage — are rejected.
• Individual Numerals: → 1, 2, 99 (as digits) are not words → Must be written out with hyphens to be considered (e.g., ninety-nine)
• Pure Math/Placeholder Strings: → No base-10 technical strings or non-verbal math values like x10^6

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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., aislinn, jazzlyn (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-amon-rattanakosin-mahinthara-ayuthaya-mahadilok-phop-noppharat-ratchathani-burirom-udomratchaniwet-mahasathan-amon-piman-awatan-sathit-sakkathattiya-witsanukam-prasit 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.