---
language:
- en

license: cc-by-sa-3.0

task_categories:
- text-classification
- text-generation
- feature-extraction
- token-classification

pretty_name: QualC Wiktionary English
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M

tags:
- english
- wiktionary
- dictionary
- etymology
- pronunciation
- nlp
- llm
- pretraining
- ai
- qualc

source_datasets:
- Wiktionary
---

# QualC Wiktionary English

QualC Wiktionary English is a cleaned English lexical dataset built from the Kaikki.org extraction of English Wiktionary.

The dataset is designed for AI pretraining, NLP research, dictionary-based language understanding, vocabulary learning, and lexical analysis.

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# Features

- 1.48M+ entries
- Definitions
- Examples
- Usage labels
- Etymology (when available)
- Pronunciation (when available)
- Part-of-speech information
- Clean JSON format
- Hugging Face Dataset compatible

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# Dataset Statistics

| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------:|
| Entries | 1,481,688 |
| Definitions | 1,781,056 |
| Examples | 551,620 |
| Entries with Labels | 83.43% |
| Entries with Etymology | 35.86% |
| Entries with Pronunciation | 9.33% |

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# Dataset Structure

Each record contains:

```json
{
  "word": "dictionary",
  "pos": "noun",
  "source": "Kaikki English Wiktionary",
  "text": "Word: dictionary ..."
}
```

Fields

| Field | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| word | Headword |
| pos | Part of Speech |
| source | Dataset source |
| text | Formatted lexical information |

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# Intended Uses

- Large Language Model pretraining
- Tokenizer training
- Vocabulary expansion
- NLP research
- Dictionary applications
- Educational tools
- Semantic analysis
- Linguistic research

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# Source

Original lexical information is derived from:

- English Wiktionary
- Kaikki.org English Wiktionary extraction

This dataset contains cleaned and reformatted data intended for machine learning applications.

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# License

The original Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.

Users of this dataset must comply with the original license and attribution requirements.

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# Citation

If you use this dataset in research or projects, please cite:

```text
QualC Wiktionary English
Maintainer: NANDHAKUMAR M.S.
https://huggingface.co/datasets/nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en
```

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# Future Updates

Planned improvements include:

- Better formatting
- Additional lexical metadata
- Semantic relations
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Hypernyms
- Hyponyms
- Derived terms
- Multilingual expansion
- Tamil Wiktionary integration

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Maintained by **NANDHAKUMAR M.S.**