---
language:
- en
license:
- cc-by-sa-4.0
- gfdl
task_categories:
- text-generation
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
---

# 📖 Wiktionary English Dataset 

This is a custom processed version of the English Wiktionary.

## 〽️ Stats

- **Total words (entries):** 1,369,015
- **Total tokens in dataset:** 89,171,089 (≈ 89M)
- **Average tokens per entry:** 65.14

**File Sizes:**

- **Raw Wiktionary JSON dump:** 18.7 GB
- **Raw English Wiktionary JSON:** 1.83 GB
- **Processed English Wiktionary JSON:** 0.415 GB
- **Processed English Wiktionary Text (Parquet):** 0.15 GB

## 🧩 Dataset Creation

 - Extract raw JSON dumps from Wiktionary
 - Filter English entries from the dump and exclude unnecessary metadata
 - Parse each JSON entry and dynamically construct an entry by combining word details into a single string.
 - Store the processed entries in a parquet file.

## 🎯 Uses

This dataset is intended for research and development in natural language processing.

## ⚖️ License & Attribution

The original Wiktionary content is [dual‑licensed](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Copyrights) under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License) and the [GNU Free Documentation License](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License). 

## 📝 Citation

If you find this dataset useful, please consider citing it using the BibTeX provided.
```
@misc {sb_2025,
	author       = { SB },
	title        = { wiktionary-en },
	year         = 2025,
	url          = { https://huggingface.co/datasets/shb777/wiktionary-en },
	publisher    = { Hugging Face }
}
```