# Wordnik (npm · @pipeworx/mcp-wordnik)

Wordnik MCP.

- Trust score: 80/100 (high trust)
- Change this week: +3
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `gateway.pipeworx.io`: 77/100, [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/wordnik-mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/wordnik-mcp)
- npm · `@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik`: 80/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/pipeworx-mcp-wordnik.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/pipeworx-mcp-wordnik)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik`
- Version: `0.2.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 100/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 97/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-wordnik).
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 7 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 66/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 939 tokens (~78/item across 12 items; 12 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 67/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 12 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 13 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Wordnik MCP server?

Wordnik runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-wordnik. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-wordnik -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-wordnik
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-wordnik": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "pipeworx-io-wordnik": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add pipeworx-io-wordnik -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-wordnik
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "pipeworx-io-wordnik": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add pipeworx-io-wordnik --command npx --arg -y --arg @pipeworx/mcp-wordnik
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  pipeworx-io-wordnik:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-wordnik": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "npx",
      "Arguments": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add pipeworx-io-wordnik -t stdio -c npx -a -y @pipeworx/mcp-wordnik
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-io-wordnik": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 80, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 79, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 78, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 3 to 7. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 1 days of observed history at the previous scan, 2 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-29 (score 77)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (12)

### `definitions` (~97 tokens)

Fetch dictionary definitions for a word from Wordnik; filter by part of speech, source dictionary, and limit. Returns definitions with source, text, and part of speech.

Input parameters:

- `includeRelated` (boolean)
- `includeTags` (boolean)
- `limit` (number)
- `partOfSpeech` (string)
- `sourceDictionaries` (string)
- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `word` (string, required)

### `examples` (~47 tokens)

Usage examples.

Input parameters:

- `includeDuplicates` (boolean)
- `limit` (number)
- `skip` (number)
- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `word` (string, required)

### `top_example` (~40 tokens)

Return the single highest-quality usage example sentence for a word from Wordnik's corpus.

Input parameters:

- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `word` (string, required)

### `related` (~74 tokens)

Return words related to a given word by relationship type (synonym, antonym, hypernym, hyponym, etc.) from Wordnik's relatedWords endpoint.

Input parameters:

- `limitPerRelationshipType` (number)
- `relationshipTypes` (string)
- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `word` (string, required)

### `phrases` (~60 tokens)

Return common bigram phrases containing a word from Wordnik's corpus; wlmi parameter sets minimum mutual-information threshold.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number)
- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `wlmi` (number)
- `word` (string, required)

### `pronunciations` (~72 tokens)

Return pronunciation strings (IPA, ahd, etc.) for a word from Wordnik; filter by source dictionary and format type.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number)
- `sourceDictionary` (string)
- `typeFormat` (string)
- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `word` (string, required)

### `hyphenation` (~61 tokens)

Return hyphenation breakpoints and syllable stress for a word from Wordnik's hyphenation endpoint.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (number)
- `sourceDictionary` (string)
- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `word` (string, required)

### `frequency` (~63 tokens)

Return year-by-year corpus frequency counts for a word from Wordnik; optionally constrain to a startYear–endYear range.

Input parameters:

- `endYear` (number)
- `startYear` (number)
- `useCanonical` (boolean)
- `word` (string, required)

### `word_of_the_day` (~48 tokens)

Fetch the Wordnik Word of the Day for a given date (YYYY-MM-DD) or today if omitted; returns word, definitions, and example sentences.

Input parameters:

- `date` (string)

### `random_word` (~98 tokens)

Return a single random word from Wordnik; filter by part of speech, min/max length, and minimum corpus or dictionary occurrence count.

Input parameters:

- `excludePartOfSpeech` (string)
- `hasDictionaryDef` (boolean)
- `includePartOfSpeech` (string)
- `maxLength` (number)
- `minCorpusCount` (number)
- `minDictionaryCount` (number)
- `minLength` (number)

### `random_words` (~108 tokens)

Return up to `limit` random words from Wordnik; filter by part of speech, min/max length, and minimum corpus or dictionary occurrence count.

Input parameters:

- `excludePartOfSpeech` (string)
- `hasDictionaryDef` (boolean)
- `includePartOfSpeech` (string)
- `limit` (number)
- `maxLength` (number)
- `minCorpusCount` (number)
- `minDictionaryCount` (number)
- `minLength` (number)

### `search` (~119 tokens)

Search the Wordnik dictionary by query string with wildcard support; filter by part of speech, length, and corpus count. Returns matching word strings.

Input parameters:

- `caseSensitive` (boolean)
- `excludePartOfSpeech` (string)
- `includePartOfSpeech` (string)
- `limit` (number)
- `maxLength` (number)
- `minCorpusCount` (number)
- `minDictionaryCount` (number)
- `minLength` (number)
- `query` (string, required)
- `skip` (number)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/pipeworx-mcp-wordnik#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 80
- 2026-11-04: 79
- 2026-11-03: 79
- 2026-11-02: 78
- 2026-11-01: 78
- 2026-10-31: 78
- 2026-10-30: 77
- 2026-10-29: 77

## Common questions

### What is the Wordnik MCP server?

Wordnik is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/wordnik. Wordnik MCP. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik).

### Is the Wordnik MCP server safe to use?

Wordnik scores 80 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Wordnik MCP server expose?

Wordnik exposes 12 tools: definitions, examples, top_example, related, phrases, and 7 more. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 887 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Wordnik MCP server still maintained?

Wordnik is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Wordnik MCP server under?

Wordnik declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.

### What did VerifyMCP test on the Wordnik MCP server?

VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Wordnik, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pipeworx/mcp-wordnik
- Repository: https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-wordnik
- Website: https://pipeworx.io/packs/wordnik
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/pipeworx-mcp-wordnik.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/pipeworx-mcp-wordnik/changelog.json
- Trust report (JSON): https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/pipeworx-mcp-wordnik.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/pipeworx-io-wordnik/pipeworx-mcp-wordnik