Credits
Last updated October 6, 2026
Launchle is built on open data and open-source software. Thank you to everyone who made these freely available.
Word data
ConceptNet 5.7
Links between words, used to check answers. ConceptNet is created by Luminoso Technologies and the ConceptNet contributors, with data drawn from Wiktionary, Open Mind Common Sense and other sources, and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. More at conceptnet.io.
GloVe word vectors
Used to measure how related two words are. By Jeffrey Pennington, Richard Socher and Christopher D. Manning, Stanford University, made available under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
Used to find rhymes (Echo). Copyright Carnegie Mellon University, used under its BSD-style license.
Answer checking
Some answers, word lists and daily words are checked or suggested with Claude, an AI model by Anthropic. AI judgments can be wrong; we review and correct them.
Software and fonts
Fraunces and Inter typefaces, used under the SIL Open Font License. Node.js, Express and better-sqlite3, used under the MIT License.
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