Wordnik incident

Wordnik API (definitions) is down

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Wordnik experienced a major incident on January 4, 2026 affecting Wordnik API (definitions), lasting 1h 9m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 04, 2026, 06:04 PM UTC
Resolved
Jan 04, 2026, 07:14 PM UTC
Duration
1h 9m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 04, 2026, 06:04 PM UTC

Affected components

Wordnik API (definitions)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 04, 2026, 06:04 PM UTC

    In [`b8828da`](https://github.com/wordnik/wordnik-status/commit/b8828da40a90f9e9d4e8b01efb684b820cb49073 ), 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: 286 ms