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Lexicurio Word Essays A curated dataset of 5,000 rare and beautiful English words, each paired with an original essay on why the word is great, a short definition, and a strength score. It is a hand-quality-gated subset of the ~421k-word Lexicurio lexicon: only words that earned a written essay are included, ranked by strength score. Every essay is written by Lexicurio and every row links back to its source page, e.g. https://lexicurio.com/word/petrichor. Columns… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Craiger/lexicurio-word-essays.

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Lexicurio Word Essays

A curated dataset of 5,000 rare and beautiful English words, each paired with an original essay on why the word is great, a short definition, and a strength score. It is a hand-quality-gated subset of the ~421k-word Lexicurio lexicon: only words that earned a written essay are included, ranked by strength score.

Every essay is written by Lexicurio and every row links back to its source page, e.g. https://lexicurio.com/word/petrichor.

Columns

ColumnTypeDescription
wordstringThe headword.
posstring \nullPart of speech.
definitionstring \nullA concise definition (derived from Wiktionary).
essaystringThe original "why this word is great" essay.
strength_scoreint \nullLexicurio strength score (0–100).
urlstringCanonical source page on lexicurio.com for this word.
sourcestringAlways Lexicurio.
licensestringAlways CC-BY-4.0.

License & attribution

This dataset is released under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). You may share and adapt it for any purpose, including commercially, provided you give attribution: credit "Lexicurio (lexicurio.com)" and, where practical, link back to the row's `url` (its source page on lexicurio.com). Each essay is original work by Lexicurio; the underlying definitions derive from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).