Wordnik incident

Wordnik API (definitions) is down

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Wordnik experienced a major incident on May 10, 2026 affecting Wordnik API (definitions), lasting 38m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
May 10, 2026, 06:06 AM UTC
Resolved
May 10, 2026, 06:45 AM UTC
Duration
38m
Detected by Pingoru
May 10, 2026, 06:06 AM UTC

Affected components

Wordnik API (definitions)

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 10, 2026, 06:06 AM UTC

    In [`a6e4af2`](https://github.com/wordnik/wordnik-status/commit/a6e4af2922169529ac13b8dfce2e9fec701f9e08 ), Wordnik API (definitions) (https://api.wordnik.com/v4/word.json/cat/definitions?limit=200&includeRelated=false&useCanonical=false&includeTags=false&api_key=$API_KEY) was **down**: - HTTP code: 429 - Response time: 317 ms