Words API Word API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Words Categories Word API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: Words API is a RESTful English-language API that provides definitions, synonyms, antonyms, related words, syllables, pronunciation (IPA), rhymes, frequency, and hierarchical lexical relationships (typeOf, hasTypes, partOf, hasParts, memberOf, similarTo, also, entails, inCategory, inRegion, pertainsTo, etc.) for more than 150,000 English words. Authentication is handled via the RapidAPI marketplace using the X-RapidAPI-Key and X-RapidAPI-Host headers.
  contact:
    name: Words API Support
    email: support@wordsapi.com
    url: https://www.wordsapi.com/
  license:
    name: Words API Terms of Service
    url: https://www.wordsapi.com/
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-last-validated: '2026-05-30'
servers:
- url: https://wordsapiv1.p.rapidapi.com
  description: Words API production endpoint, served through the RapidAPI gateway.
security:
- RapidApiKey: []
tags:
- name: Word
  description: Words API Lookup a Word and Retrieve Its Full Lexical Entry.
paths:
  /words/{word}:
    get:
      tags:
      - Word
      operationId: getWord
      summary: Get Word Entry
      description: Retrieves the full lexical entry for a single English word — every documented sense (definition + part of speech), syllable breakdown, IPA pronunciation, and the embedded results array used by every other detail-type endpoint.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Word'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Full word entry returned.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/WordEntry'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequests'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  responses:
    ServerError:
      description: Upstream Words API error.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid RapidAPI credentials.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    TooManyRequests:
      description: Quota or rate limit exceeded.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: Word not found in the Words API dictionary.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  parameters:
    Word:
      name: word
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The English word to look up.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: apple
  schemas:
    Result:
      type: object
      description: Single lexical-relationship record for one sense of a word.
      properties:
        definition:
          type: string
          description: Definition of this sense.
          example: fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
        partOfSpeech:
          type: string
          description: Grammatical category of this sense.
          example: noun
        synonyms:
          type: array
          description: Words interchangeable with the headword in this sense.
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - orchard apple tree
        antonyms:
          type: array
          description: Words with opposite meaning in this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        examples:
          type: array
          description: Example sentences for this sense.
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - he is the apple of my eye
        typeOf:
          type: array
          description: Hypernyms — more general words for this sense.
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - edible fruit
          - pome
          - false fruit
        hasTypes:
          type: array
          description: Hyponyms — more specific words for this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        partOf:
          type: array
          description: Holonyms — wholes this sense is part of.
          items:
            type: string
        hasParts:
          type: array
          description: Meronyms — parts that compose this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        instanceOf:
          type: array
          description: Categories of which this sense is an instance.
          items:
            type: string
        hasInstances:
          type: array
          description: Specific instances of this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        similarTo:
          type: array
          description: Related but non-synonymous words.
          items:
            type: string
        also:
          type: array
          description: Idiomatic phrases that include this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        entails:
          type: array
          description: Words logically entailed by this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        memberOf:
          type: array
          description: Groups the sense is a member of.
          items:
            type: string
        hasMembers:
          type: array
          description: Members that belong to this group sense.
          items:
            type: string
        substanceOf:
          type: array
          description: Materials this sense is a substance of.
          items:
            type: string
        hasSubstances:
          type: array
          description: Substances that compose this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        inCategory:
          type: array
          description: Categories this sense belongs to.
          items:
            type: string
        hasCategories:
          type: array
          description: Subcategories of this category sense.
          items:
            type: string
        usageOf:
          type: array
          description: Domain-usage classifications this sense belongs to.
          items:
            type: string
        hasUsages:
          type: array
          description: Domain-usage examples of this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        inRegion:
          type: array
          description: Regions in which this sense is used.
          items:
            type: string
        regionOf:
          type: array
          description: Regional variants associated with this sense.
          items:
            type: string
        pertainsTo:
          type: array
          description: Words this sense pertains to.
          items:
            type: string
    Pronunciation:
      type: object
      description: Pronunciation in IPA. May be a single string or split by part of speech.
      properties:
        all:
          type: string
          description: IPA pronunciation that applies across all parts of speech.
          example: ˈæp.əl
        noun:
          type: string
          description: IPA pronunciation when the word is used as a noun.
        verb:
          type: string
          description: IPA pronunciation when the word is used as a verb.
        adjective:
          type: string
          description: IPA pronunciation when the word is used as an adjective.
        adverb:
          type: string
          description: IPA pronunciation when the word is used as an adverb.
    Error:
      type: object
      description: Error response body returned by Words API when a request fails.
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
          description: Always false for error responses.
          example: false
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable description of the error.
          example: word not found
      required:
      - message
    Syllables:
      type: object
      description: Syllable breakdown for a word.
      properties:
        count:
          type: integer
          description: Number of syllables in the word.
          example: 2
        list:
          type: array
          description: Ordered list of the word's syllables.
          items:
            type: string
          example:
          - ap
          - ple
    WordEntry:
      type: object
      description: Full lexical entry for one English word — every detail-type endpoint reads from this structure.
      properties:
        word:
          type: string
          description: The headword.
          example: apple
        results:
          type: array
          description: One Result per documented sense of the word.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Result'
        syllables:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Syllables'
        pronunciation:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pronunciation'
        frequency:
          type: number
          format: double
          description: Legacy frequency score (Zipf scale).
          example: 4.83
  securitySchemes:
    RapidApiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-RapidAPI-Key
      description: RapidAPI subscription key. The X-RapidAPI-Host header (wordsapiv1.p.rapidapi.com) is also required.