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List of 1727 (possible) English profane words.

See [cuss][cuss] for the same words, rated for sureness: how likely it is to be used as either profanity or clean text.

Installation

npm:

npm install wordblock

Usage

var wordblock = require('wordblock');

wordblock.length;

console.log(typeof wordblock[0]); // 'string'

Discord.js usage

client.on('message', message => {
	client.guilds.get("channel id");
	for (x = 0; x < wordblock.length; x++) {
	if (message.content.toUpperCase() == wordblock[x].toUpperCase()) {
	message.author.send('Please do not say hurtful words as they can lead to depression and/or death!')
	message.delete();
	message.channel.send(`${message.author}, Please do not use that type of language`);
	}
}
});

API

wordblock

Type: Array.<string> — wordblock exposes a list of strings.

Support

wordblock supports 1727 English profane words and phrases. For a complete list, see support.md (:warning: this file contains (very) offensive terms).

Note that the words listed in wordblock might not be profane in certain contexts.

Data

Part of the list is scraped from [Luis von Ahn’s Research Group (Carnegie Mellon)][luis-von-ahn]. I could not find any license information on that page.

Another list is based on the [List of ethnic slurs from WikiPedia][racial-slurs].

Related

• buzzwords — List of buzzwords;
• dale-chall — List of familiar American-English words (1995);
• fillers — List of filler words.
• hedges — List of hedge words;
• spache — List of simple American-English words (1974);
• weasels — List of weasel words.

License

MIT © [Wolfie JS][author]