denckring-en-data

English pronunciation data for denckring: exact syllable counts, and the phoneme tails that rhyme checking will need.

pip install denckring[en]

Installing this package replaces the core English pack's spelling heuristic with dictionary lookups. Nothing in the API changes — the same procedures simply answer more accurately, and the estimated_words metric on every syllabic report drops to zero for words the dictionary knows.

Data

Three vendored sources, all redistributed rather than downloaded, so neither installation nor use touches the network:

• The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, 135,166 entries, under its BSD-2-Clause licence — see LICENSE-CMUDICT.
• The Open English WordNet 2024, under its CC BY 4.0 licence — see LICENSE-WORDNET. nouns.txt (56,468 single-word noun lemmas, in dictionary order) and glosses.txt.gz (78,866 lemmas, 134,298 glosses across every part of speech) are both derived from it. metadata.json beside the data records the exact version and generation date; scripts/build_lexicon.py regenerates both files from OEWN alone.
• SCOWL 2020.12.07, under the terms in LICENSE-SCOWL. graded_words.txt.gz holds 77,078 words, each with the SCOWL size band it first appears at, built from the english-words and american-words lists at sizes 10 through 60 — 60 being the largest size SCOWL's own documentation is confident carries no misspellings. The band is the point: room at 10 and tinsel at 35 are equally words, and only one of them is a common one, which is what a word list built for membership alone cannot say. scripts/build_graded_words.py regenerates it.

The code in this package is Apache-2.0, like denckring itself. The data is not — see NOTICE for which file carries which terms.