Linguin has an API. It's early, and it's live: everything you look up here, your code can look up too, at api.linguin.xyz.
Most dictionary APIs hand you a thin slice. A headword, a canned definition, maybe a list of synonyms, English and little else.
This one gives you the whole entry. Ask for crane and back comes every sense, the bird and the machine, with examples and pronunciation, as JSON, in 120+ languages. Three calls cover it: look a word up, run it in reverse from meaning to word, or fetch a past result by its id.
Reverse is the useful trick. Describe what you mean and it finds the word, the same way search does on the site. And if a word has no entry yet, the call writes one on the spot, so you always get something back.
This is early access, a soft open while we watch it under real use. Sign in, claim a key, and there's free credit waiting to try it. Build something small, then tell us what broke.
Linguin has an API. Come kick the tires before we open it wide.
The docs fit on one page. Start there.