Endpoints

Find close spellings

GEThttps://api.lexema.fyi/v1/nearby

Spellings close to q, in the not-found page's order: the same letters with accents (accent), one edit away (edit), or words that begin with q (prefix).

Query parameters

qstringrequired
The word, 1 to 128 characters.

Responses

200
results holds the spellings, and is empty when none is close.

Request

curl -G -H "X-API-Key: lx_…" \
  --data-urlencode "q=mangare" \
  "https://api.lexema.fyi/v1/nearby"

const params = new URLSearchParams({ "q": "mangare" });
const response = await fetch(`https://api.lexema.fyi/v1/nearby?${params}`, {
  headers: { "X-API-Key": "lx_…" },
});
const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.lexema.fyi/v1/nearby",
    params={ "q": "mangare" },
    headers={ "X-API-Key": "lx_…" },
)
data = response.json()

Response

200

{
  "query": "mangare",
  "release_id": "it-0c432803",
  "results": [
    {
      "word": "mangiare",
      "kind": "edit",
      "attribution": {
        "licence": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
        "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
        "source": "Wikizionario",
        "source_url": "https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/mangiare"
      }
    }
  ]
}