profanities

List of 1727 (possible) English profane words.

See cuss for the same words, rated for sureness: how likely it is to be used as either profanity or clean text.

Installation

npm:

npm install profanities

profanities is also available as an AMD, CommonJS, and globals module, uncompressed and compressed.

Usage

var profanities = require('profanities');

profanities.length; // 1727

console.log(typeof profanities[0]); // 'string'

API

profanities

Type: Array.<string> — profanities exposes a list of strings.

Support

profanities supports 1727 English profane words and phrases. For a complete list, see support.md (:warning: this file contains (very) offensive terms).

Note that the words listed in profanities might not be profane in certain contexts.

Data

Part of the list is scraped from Luis von Ahn’s Research Group (Carnegie Mellon). I could not find any license information on that page.

Another list is based on the “List of ethnic slurs” from WikiPedia.

Related

• buzzwords — List of buzzwords;

• dale-chall — List of familiar American-English words (1995);

• fillers — List of filler words.

• hedges — List of hedge words;

• spache — List of simple American-English words (1974);

• weasels — List of weasel words.

License

MIT © Titus Wormer