wordLengthRange

Reports the shortest and longest word a language's pools hold, in characters. This is what randWord falls back to when minLengthminLengthmin_length or maxLengthmaxLengthmax_length is left out.

import { wordLengthRange } from 'randino';

wordLengthRange('ko'); // [1, 4]
wordLengthRange('en'); // [3, 11]
wordLengthRange(); // [1, 21] — every language at once

import 'package:randino/randino.dart';

wordLengthRange(language: WordLanguage.ko); // LengthRange(1, 4)
wordLengthRange(language: WordLanguage.en); // LengthRange(3, 11)
wordLengthRange(); // LengthRange(1, 21) — every language at once

from randino import word_length_range

word_length_range("ko")  # (1, 4)
word_length_range("en")  # (3, 11)
word_length_range()  # (1, 21) — every language at once

Arguments

Argument	Type	Default	Description
language	WordLanguageOptionWordLanguage?WordLanguageOption	'all'null"all"	The language to report on, or every one of them.
theme	WordThemeOptionWordTheme?WordThemeOption	'all'null"all"	The theme to report on, or every one of them.

Both are positional in JavaScript and Python and named in Dart, the way the other language helpers are.

Narrowing the theme narrows the range

A theme is a pool of its own, so its range always sits inside the language's.

wordLengthRange('en'); // [3, 11]
wordLengthRange('en', 'weather'); // [3, 11]
wordLengthRange('zh'); // [2, 3] — every Chinese noun is two or three characters

wordLengthRange(language: WordLanguage.en); // LengthRange(3, 11)
wordLengthRange(language: WordLanguage.en, theme: WordTheme.weather); // LengthRange(3, 11)
wordLengthRange(language: WordLanguage.zh); // LengthRange(2, 3)

word_length_range("en")  # (3, 11)
word_length_range("en", "weather")  # (3, 11)
word_length_range("zh")  # (2, 3)

Asking for a range the pool cannot satisfy is not an error: the generator answers with the closest word it holds rather than truncating one.

See also

• randWord — where the range is used.
• nicknameLengthRange — the same question for a whole nickname.