Datamuse
Datamuse is a collection of free websites, mobile apps, and APIs designed to help people create and communicate more effectively.
What is it¶
the website describe it as: The Datamuse API is a word-finding query engine for developers.
For what I can use it?¶
| To find | end point |
|---|---|
| Meaning similar to a sentence | /words?ml=[sentence] |
| Related with a word that start with b or ends with a | /words?ml=duck&sp=b*or /words?ml=spoon&sp=*a |
| Word that sound like | /words?sl=jirraf |
| A word that start with t has 2 letters between and end k | /words?sp=t??k |
| Words that are spelled similarly to hippopotamus | /words?sp=hipopatamus |
| Words that rhyme with forgetful | /words?rel_rhy=forgetful |
| Words that rhyme with grape that are related to breakfast | /words?ml=breakfast&rel_rhy=grape |
| Adjectives that are often used to describe ocean | /words?rel_jjb=ocean |
| Adjectives describing ocean sorted by how related they are to temperature | /words?rel_jjb=ocean&topics=temperature |
| Nouns that are often described by the adjective yellow | /words?rel_jja=yellow |
| Words that often follow "drink" in a sentence, that start with the letter w | /words?lc=drink&sp=w* |
| Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word "cow" | /words?rel_trg=cow |
| Suggestions for the user if they have typed in rawand so far | /sug?s=rawand |
End points¶
The feacture can be access on:
api.datamuse.com/wordsapi.datamuse.com/sug
/words endpoint¶
End point return a list of words
I can divide it in 3 categories;
1. Hard constraints results (rd,sl,sp,rel_[code] and v).
2. Context hints (topics, lc, rc).
3. Those that affect the order of the results returned.
Hard Constraints¶
Means like ml¶
This will give back words or sentence that has similar meaning
Sound like sl¶
Require that the results are pronounced similarly to this string of characters.
spelled like sp¶
Require that the results are spelled similarly to this string of characters. A pattern can include any combination of alphanumeric characters, spaces, and two reserved characters that represent placeholders:
- "*" (which matches any number of characters).
- "?" (which matches exactly one character).
Related word rel_[code]¶
[code] is a three-letter identifier from the list below.
| [code] | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| jja | Popular nouns modified by the given adjective | gradual → increase |
| jjb | Popular adjectives used to modify the given noun | beach → sandy |
| syn | Synonyms | ocean → sea |
| trg | "Triggers", words that are statistically associated with the query word. | cow → milking |
| ant | Antonyms | late → early |
| spc | "Kind of", direct hypernyms. | gondola → boat |
| gen | "More general than", direct hyponyms | boat → gondola |
| com | "Comprises", direct holonyms | car → accelerator |
| par | "Part of", direct meronyms | trunk → tree |
| bga | Frequent followers (w′ such that P(w′|w) ≥ 0.001) | wreak → havoc |
| bgb | Frequent predecessors (w′ such that P(w|w′) ≥ 0.001) | havoc → wreak |
| rhy | Rhymes, "perfect" rhymes | spade → aid |
| nry | Approximate rhymes | forest → chorus |
| hom | Homophones, sound-alike words | course → coarse |
| cns | Consonant match | sample → simple |
Vocabulary used v¶
Identifier for the vocabulary to use. If none is provided, a \(550,000\)-term vocabulary of English words and multiword expressions is used. (The value es specifies a \(500,000\)-term vocabulary of words from Spanish-language books.