Wordnik incident

Wordnik API (definitions) is down

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Wordnik experienced a major incident on January 13, 2026 affecting Wordnik API (definitions), lasting 9d 1h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 13, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 22, 2026, 09:28 PM UTC
Duration
9d 1h
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 13, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

Affected components

Wordnik API (definitions)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 13, 2026, 08:23 PM UTC

    In [`ae5ef15`](https://github.com/wordnik/wordnik-status/commit/ae5ef15980254ce88509aa734ce66f63a700827d ), 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: 213 ms