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Words Word Entry Structure

Full lexical entry for one English word — every detail-type endpoint reads from this structure.

Type: object Properties: 5
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WordEntry is a JSON Structure definition published by Words API, describing 5 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

Properties

word results syllables pronunciation frequency

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/words/refs/heads/main/json-structure/words-word-entry-structure.json",
  "name": "WordEntry",
  "description": "Full lexical entry for one English word \u2014 every detail-type endpoint reads from this structure.",
  "type": "object",
  "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": "double",
      "description": "Legacy frequency score (Zipf scale).",
      "example": 4.83
    }
  }
}