About WordHippo MCP Server
WordHippo MCP Server is a thesaurus server that looks up a given word through the unofficial WordHippo API. It is intended for MCP clients that need word-related results from WordHippo.
Key features
- 01Look up a given word on WordHippo
- 02Use the unofficial WordHippo API
Use cases
- 01Finding thesaurus results for a word
- 02Retrieving WordHippo results through an MCP client
MCP support
It exposes WordHippo word lookups to MCP clients as a thesaurus service.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEwordhippo-mcp-server
Thesaurus MCP server
Fork of the mcp fetch server and modified to only fetch from WordHippo, given a word
Usage
"mcpServers": {
"thesaurus": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/clareliguori/wordhippo-mcp-server"]
}
}
Development
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate
uv sync --all-extras --dev
docker build -t ghcr.io/clareliguori/wordhippo-mcp-server:latest .
docker push ghcr.io/clareliguori/wordhippo-mcp-server:latest
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