spache

List of familiar American-English words: Revised Spache (1974).

Contents

• What is this?
• When should I use this?
• Install
• Use
• API
  • spache
• Data
• Types
• Compatibility
• Related
• Contribute
• Security
• License

What is this?

This package exposes a list of familiar words.

When should I use this?

Use this when you want to do readability things with natural language.

Use spache-formula for the formula.

Alternatively, you can use dale-chall, which has more words (about 3 000) and is more recent (1995).

Install

This package is ESM only. In Node.js (version 14.14+, 16.0+), install with npm:

npm install spache

In Deno with esm.sh:

import {spache} from 'https://esm.sh/spache@2'

In browsers with esm.sh:

<script type="module">
  import {spache} from 'https://esm.sh/spache@2?bundle'
</script>

Use

import {spache} from 'spache'

spache.length //=> 1063

console.log(spache.slice(0, 10))

Yields:

[ 'a',
  'able',
  'about',
  'above',
  'across',
  'act',
  'add',
  'afraid',
  'after',
  'afternoon' ]

API

This package exports the identifier spache. There is no default export.

spache

List of strings (Array<string>).

Data

See Perera, Katherine. Linguistic Difficulty in Reading Material. (Linguistics and the Teacher. Vol. 112).

Types

This package is fully typed with TypeScript. It exports no additional types.

Compatibility

This package is at least compatible with all maintained versions of Node.js. As of now, that is Node.js 14.14+ and 16.0+. It also works in Deno and modern browsers.

Related

• spache-formula — formula to detect the grade level of text according
• dale-chall — list of easy American-English words: new Dale–Chall (1995)

Contribute

Yes please! See How to Contribute to Open Source.

Security

This package is safe.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer