Datamuse Word Finder Scraper 🔤

Find synonyms, antonyms, rhymes, related, similar-meaning, sounds-like and associated words for any list of words — powered by the free, clean Datamuse API. No API key, no login, datacenter-proxy-friendly, and fast.

Give it a list of words and a relation, and get back a tidy dataset of matching words with relevance scores and part-of-speech tags — one row per returned word, always traceable back to the query word.

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✨ What you get

For every query word, one item per returned word:

Field	Description
query_word	The word you asked about
relation	The relation you requested (means-like, synonyms, rhymes, …)
word	A matching word
score	Datamuse relevance score (higher = stronger match)
tags	Part-of-speech / relation tags (e.g. n, adj, syn)
scraped_at	ISO timestamp of the run

🧩 Relations supported

Relation	Datamuse param	Example (happy)
Means like	ml	cheerful, glad, content
Synonyms	rel_syn	content, halcyon, bright
Antonyms	rel_ant	sad, distressed, unhappy
Rhymes	rel_rhy	snappy, nappy, scrappy
Sounds like	sl	happi, hippy
Spelled like	sp	wildcard/spelling matches
Triggers (associated)	rel_trg	birthday, smile, joy

🔧 Input

{
  "mode": "words",
  "words": ["ocean", "happy"],
  "relation": "means-like",
  "maxPerWord": 20,
  "maxItems": 500
}

• mode — words: a list of query words.
• words — array of query words (prefilled with ["ocean", "happy"]).
• relation — which kind of related words to return (default means-like).
• maxPerWord — max returned words per query word (default 20, max 100).
• maxItems — hard cap on total dataset items (default 500, max 5000).

📦 Example output

{
  "query_word": "ocean",
  "relation": "means-like",
  "word": "sea",
  "score": 40041792,
  "tags": ["syn", "n"],
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-18T10:00:00+00:00"
}

💸 Pricing

Pay-per-result — roughly ~$0.50 per 1,000 words returned (plus minimal Apify platform usage). A single word with maxPerWord=100 costs a fraction of a cent. Because Datamuse is a clean JSON API, runs are quick and cheap — no browser, no proxy needed.

🎯 Use cases

• Writing & content tools — build a thesaurus, paraphraser, or headline helper.
• SEO keyword research — expand seed keywords into synonyms, related and associated terms.
• NLP & data science — bootstrap lexicons, query-expansion, and word-embedding evaluation sets.
• Word games & education — generate rhymes, anagram candidates, and vocabulary lists.

🆚 Comparison

	Datamuse Word Finder Scraper	Generic thesaurus scrapers
API key needed	❌ No	Often yes
Relations	7 (synonyms → rhymes → triggers)	Usually 1
Relevance scores	✅ Yes	Rarely
Proxy required	❌ Datacenter-friendly	Frequently residential
Speed	⚡ JSON, no browser	Slow HTML parsing

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Keywords: datamuse, word finder, synonyms scraper, rhymes, antonyms, related words, thesaurus API, SEO keywords, NLP lexicon, word games.

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