Third-Party Notices

Source, licensing, attribution, and trademark information for third-party data used by MonkeyTactics.

Last updated: September 12, 2026

Overview

MonkeyTactics application source code is licensed separately under the repository's MIT License. The Standard dictionary used by the word tools is a transformed copy of the ENABLE word list described below.

ENABLE

  • Full name: Enhanced North American Benchmark LExicon
  • Authors and compilers include Alan Beale and M. Cooper
  • License status: Public Domain
  • Source: enable1.txt

The ENABLE master word list was formally released into the public domain for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.

Wiktionary Expanded dictionary

  • Source: English Wiktionary
  • Processed word list: @kitschpatrol/dict-en-wiktionary version 1.5.0
  • Processor: dict-en-wiktionary
  • Wiktionary data licenses: CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL
  • Processor license: MIT, Copyright © 2024–2026 Eric Mika

The Expanded dictionary is a normalized, lowercase ASCII subset of the May 2026 Wiktionary-derived word list. It is available to the word solvers and Anagram Architect. Wiktionary contributors are credited collectively; the source page history provides individual attribution.

Princeton WordNet 3.0

The generated records retain source provenance. Crossword and anagram processing, searching, and ranking run locally in the visitor's browser.

Datamuse API

  • Purpose: On-demand definitions in the Crossword Solver
  • Provider: Datamuse
  • Service: Datamuse API
  • Definition sources identified by Datamuse: Wiktionary and WordNet 3.0

When a user chooses to look up a matching crossword word, MonkeyTactics requests definition metadata for that word from the Datamuse API. Datamuse asks publicly available applications using its API to acknowledge the service. Definitions are supplied on demand and may be incomplete, unavailable, or drawn from third-party lexical sources subject to their respective terms.

JavaScript libraries

The QR Code Generator and QR Code Decoder use the following open-source JavaScript libraries.

rqrr 0.10.1

zxing-wasm 2.2.2 and ZXing-C++

heic-to 1.5.2

Tesseract.js 5.x

PDF.js 5.7.284

node-qrcode 1.1.0

node-qrcode credits “QRCode for JavaScript” by Kazuhiko Arase, which is also MIT licensed.

Libraries bundled by node-qrcode

  • dijkstrajs (declared dependency range ^1.0.1) — Copyright © 2008 Wyatt Baldwin, MIT notice
  • isarray (declared dependency range ^2.0.1) — Copyright © 2013 Julian Gruber, MIT notice

“QR Code” is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.

Word-list and trademark notice

The merged list is provided for word-finding and word-game reference. It may contain uncommon, historical, regional, offensive, or general-dictionary-absent terms. Inclusion does not guarantee acceptance by any particular dictionary, edition, region, tournament, or ruleset.

MonkeyTactics is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro, Mattel, Collins, or Merriam-Webster. SCRABBLE and related marks belong to their respective owners.