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How may Wiktionary's API be used to determine whether or not a word exists?
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The Wiktionary API can be used to query whether or not a word exists. The first link provides examples on other types of formats that might be easier to parse.
Wiktionary is generally a secondary source for its subject matter (definitions of words and phrases) whereas Wikipedia is a tertiary source for its subject matter (topics).
Downloading Wiktionary Q: Is it possible to download Wiktionary? A: Yes. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ should have the latest copy of the main namespace. The cleanest navigation page is https://dumps.wikimedia.org/.
wiktionary has over 791,870 gloss definitions and over 1,269,938 total definitions (including different forms) for English entries alone, with a total of over 9,928,056 definitions across all languages.
The Wiktionary API can be used to query whether or not a word exists.
Examples for existing and non-existing pages:
http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=testhttp://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=testx
The first link provides examples on other types of formats that might be easier to parse.
To retrieve the word's data in a small XHTML format (should more than existence be required), request the printable version of the page:
http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=test&printable=yeshttp://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=testx&printable=yes
These can then be parsed with any standard XML parser.
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