Comment by Someone

6 years ago

Bug report: I hit “Microtissue”, a word that does exist, and its definition is incorrect ;-)

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Someone

Oh no, it must have missed my blacklist. It's supposed to give a little "this word probably exists" when that happens. It's surprisingly hard to determine if a word already exists: https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/tissue/eyJ3IjogInRpc3...

jolmg 6 years ago

I also got "adverb. quaterly", "noun. geotagging", "adjective. mispriced", "noun. wholy" (google says it's an obsolete spelling of wholly).
I didn't see any note saying "this word probably exists".
skykooler 6 years ago
Is there any sort of logic to discourage it from using a word in its own definition as it does there?
- turtlesoup 6 years ago
  
  Not currently, but I should probably reject samples that do! Filed a task here: https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist/issu...
  
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starpilot 6 years ago

Is it comparing to a list of common bigrams? It seems to come up with those a lot.

Same with accommodability[1], except that (impressively) it _did_ get the definition more or less correct.

> accommodability

> ac·com·mod·abil·ity

> The quality of being likely to be useful, effective, or useful

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Granted, I don't know if it's technically a dictionary word, but I've definitely seen it in technical contexts.

solstice 6 years ago

Wouldn't look out of place in Germany with their ubiquitous info points, service points and other cobbled together denglish word creations

Same with "refactoring"

Yeah I got comicbook, nonreferential, barleywine, geophile, which could all be compound words, maybe hyphenated today but perhaps not tomorrow.

cosbynator 6 years ago

Just pushed a change to update the blacklist (collapsing hyphens / spaces to single words); it'll never be perfect but hopefully slightly better!