An English word list sourced from ENABLE1 — the public-domain word list compiled by Mel Cooper (Mendel Leo Cooper) in 1997 and shared freely with the word-game community. Every entry is filtered down to forms playable on an Alfa Kraft board: 2–15 letters in [a-z], no spaces or punctuation. Released to the public domain.
What this is
The English word list shipped with Alfa Kraft — every move you play in an English match is checked against it. It is a flat, alphabetically sorted text file where each line is one accepted form.
ENABLE1 is the editorial baseline. The list is used as-is, with no custom filtering or scoring pipeline on top: ENABLE1 already enumerates inflected forms directly, so plurals, conjugations, and other regular variants are accepted without a runtime expansion step.
Only forms in the English alphabet [a-z], 2–15 letters, with no spaces, digits, hyphens, or accented letters survive into the final word list. The build is deterministic — the same input always produces the same output. English entries do not include part-of-speech or inflection metadata, so the search page renders results as a simple word list.
Source & credit
- ENABLE1 — compiled by Mel Cooper (Mendel Leo Cooper, 1997), released to the public domain — editorial baseline.
ENABLE1 (Enhanced North American Benchmark LExicon) was assembled by Mel Cooper from earlier public-domain word collections and explicitly released for unrestricted use. It has since become a de facto reference list for word-game developers and crossword tools. Cooper passed away in 2018; the list lives on as the community resource he intended.
ENABLE1 is in the public domain, so individual words are facts not subject to copyright. To obtain the source data, use a public mirror of the list such as enable1.txt on GitHub.