Wordnik incident

Wordnik API (definitions) is down

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Wordnik experienced a major incident on January 12, 2026 affecting Wordnik API (definitions), lasting 15m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 12, 2026, 04:19 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 12, 2026, 04:35 PM UTC
Duration
15m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 12, 2026, 04:19 PM UTC

Affected components

Wordnik API (definitions)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 12, 2026, 04:19 PM UTC

    In [`ad33ee7`](https://github.com/wordnik/wordnik-status/commit/ad33ee71b35bcdfe0656e28b85fa6e68a32eff65 ), 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: 504 - Response time: 10369 ms