Look up the canonical pronunciation of a developer-related word.

Returns the IPA, a respelling that approximates how engineers actually say the word, a playable MP3 audio_url, optional alternate readings, the source citation when available, and editorial notes. Use this for project names like kubectl, nginx, GIF, JSON, Pydantic, Knative, programmer jargon, and tech acronyms. Returns an error dict if the word is not in the dictionary; for general English vocabulary, fall back to your own knowledge.

Search the dictionary by partial word or category match.

Matches substrings against the entry's word and category only — the search index (/api/words.json) carries no notes or source text, so a query like "Kelsey" will NOT surface kubectl. To read an entry's notes, look it up with pronounce.

Returns a list of matching entries with word, slug, category, and confidence. Use this when the exact spelling is unknown or when browsing entries by category.

List dictionary entries, optionally filtered by category.

Categories include: product, project, cli-tool, tool, cs-term, acronym, abbreviation, person. The dictionary holds well over 1500 entries and grows continuously, so the unfiltered list is large — pass category and/or limit to keep the result focused.