fastpixels/odia-wordlist

Canonical Odia word list (v1)

A list of Odia words as native Odia text spells them, built for the Odia LLM Lab's data checks (experiment E11): deciding whether a repaired word is Odia, measuring how native a model's Odia vocabulary is, and spot-checking generated text. Private, research use.

Rows

{"word": "ଏବଂ", "count": 36397, "articles": 7043, "rank": 5}

count is occurrences in the source, articles the number of different articles using the word, rank the rank by count. Spelling follows the project's normalize_odia (never NFC-normalised).

How v1 was built

• Source: the cleaned Odia Wikipedia dump of 2026-09-01, native articles only: 14,850 of 18,695, leaving out machine-assisted translations (Content Translation, MDWiki) and bot-made articles.
• Kept: a word seen at least 3 times in at least 2 different articles, and well formed (no digits, no unassigned code point, no leading sign, no vowel sign directly after an independent vowel, no two vowel signs in a row bar the decomposed ୋ ୈ ୌ, no double virama).
• Size: 63,322 words of the 242,160 distinct words seen (178,797 too rare, 41 malformed).

Coverage

Text	Running words	Known to the list
Unseen native articles (list rebuilt from the other 90%)	347,841	91.7%
Odia Wikipedia school passages	520,832	93.7%
Questions written about them by Gemma-4-31B-it	721,662	93.3%
GSM8K translated into Odia by Gemma-4-31B-it	488,817	90.3%

25,721 words (seen 10 times or more) carry 94.8% of all running words; the other 55% of distinct words in unseen text are the long tail of names and rare inflections.

Limits

Wikipedia's register only: school terms, everyday words and loanwords common elsewhere (ଗାଲନ, ପେନ୍ସିଲ୍) can be missing, and a few frequent misspellings pass (the form checks catch ଅା for ଆ, not every error). Later versions will add other native sources (verified web Odia, school textbooks) and a native speaker's review.

Licence

Derived from Odia Wikipedia, whose text is CC BY-SA 4.0; the list is shared under the same licence.