RuneWords Third-Party Notices

Scope of this notice

The RuneWords project license applies only to original project code and documentation. It does not replace the licenses or ownership rights attached to third-party fonts, word data, audio, images, SDKs, or services.

Cinzel

• Bundled file: Cinzel Variable Font.
• Copyright: Copyright 2020 The Cinzel Project Authors.
• Designer metadata: Natanael Gama.
• License: SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
• Canonical project and license: Cinzel project and SIL OFL 1.1 text.

Word data

The core and bonus dictionaries are transformed from dwyl/english-words under its Unlicense/public-domain dedication. RuneWords uppercases the entries, removes short and blocked entries, and separates gameplay and bonus words by length.

The blocked-word filter is adapted from Shutterstock's English LDNOOBW list, licensed under CC BY 4.0. RuneWords uppercases, sorts, and serializes the entries. No endorsement is implied.

Common-word ranking

The common-word ranking is adapted from wordfreq 3.1.1 by Robyn Speer. Its frequency data and the adapted RuneWords ranking are covered by CC BY-SA 4.0. RuneWords filters the English ranking by frequency, spelling, length, its gameplay corpus, and its blocked-word list.

The upstream wordfreq notice credits Google Books Ngrams and Syntactic Ngrams, the Leeds Internet Corpus, Wikipedia, ParaCrawl, OPUS OpenSubtitles/OpenSubtitles, the SUBTLEX lists created by Marc Brysbaert and collaborators, and historical aggregate Twitter frequency statistics. No endorsement by those sources is implied.

RuneWords-created content

The optimized gameplay trie, clue copy, sound effects, and realm/UI artwork were created specifically for RuneWords. The project owner confirmed on July 10, 2026 that AI-assisted copy and artwork were produced under the owner's direction and authorized accounts using owner-controlled prompts and inputs, with final selection and editing performed for RuneWords. Six retained realm inputs identify Meta AI; other project content used the owner's Codex/OpenAI workflow. No stock imagery, copied dictionary text, or external audio samples were incorporated. Sound effects are deterministic project synthesis.

Contact support@runewords.online with questions or ownership concerns.

Website font delivery

This website requests Cinzel, Fraunces, and Manrope from Google Fonts rather than distributing those font files from this website. The Cinzel notice below covers the Cinzel font bundled in the RuneWords app and does not replace the terms governing Google Fonts delivery.

SIL Open Font License 1.1

Version 1.1 - 26 February 2007

Preamble

The goals of the Open Font License (OFL) are to stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others.

The OFL allows the licensed fonts to be used, studied, modified and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. The fonts, including any derivative works, can be bundled, embedded, redistributed and/or sold with any software provided that any reserved names are not used by derivative works. The fonts and derivatives, however, cannot be released under any other type of license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the fonts or their derivatives.

Definitions

"Font Software" refers to the set of files released by the Copyright Holder(s) under this license and clearly marked as such. This may include source files, build scripts and documentation.

"Reserved Font Name" refers to any names specified as such after the copyright statement(s).

"Original Version" refers to the collection of Font Software components as distributed by the Copyright Holder(s).

"Modified Version" refers to any derivative made by adding to, deleting, or substituting -- in part or in whole -- any of the components of the Original Version, by changing formats or by porting the Font Software to a new environment.

"Author" refers to any designer, engineer, programmer, technical writer or other person who contributed to the Font Software.

Permission and conditions

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the Font Software, to use, study, copy, merge, embed, modify, redistribute, and sell modified and unmodified copies of the Font Software, subject to the following conditions:

1. Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
2. Original or Modified Versions of the Font Software may be bundled, redistributed and/or sold with any software, provided that each copy contains the above copyright notice and this license. These can be included either as stand-alone text files, human-readable headers or in the appropriate machine-readable metadata fields within text or binary files as long as those fields can be easily viewed by the user.
3. No Modified Version of the Font Software may use the Reserved Font Name(s) unless explicit written permission is granted by the corresponding Copyright Holder. This restriction only applies to the primary font name as presented to the users.
4. The name(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) or the Author(s) of the Font Software shall not be used to promote, endorse or advertise any Modified Version, except to acknowledge the contribution(s) of the Copyright Holder(s) and the Author(s) or with their explicit written permission.
5. The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole, must be distributed entirely under this license, and must not be distributed under any other license. The requirement for fonts to remain under this license does not apply to any document created using the Font Software.

Termination

This license becomes null and void if any of the above conditions are not met.

Disclaimer

THE FONT SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADEMARK, OR OTHER RIGHT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE FONT SOFTWARE OR FROM OTHER DEALINGS IN THE FONT SOFTWARE.