Frequently Asked Questions

Pick a tier (I, II, or III), pay, and get credits. Each credit unlocks one word from the pool. Click the unlock and the slot machine spins. The word is yours, with permanent access from your portal.

• Pocket (I) — one word, a brief gloss. The bare bones.
• Standard (II) — ten words, full definitions, etymologies, and example sentences. What most people pick.
• Unabridged (III) — sixty-nine words, full entries, plus a paragraph of usage scenarios per word. The completionist option.

Same word pool for all three tiers. The difference is how much you get and how much surrounding apparatus comes with each entry.

Yes.

When you unlock a word, you become the first person ever to unlock that word. The public permalink for that word records you (or your chosen leaderboard name, if you've opted in) as the original holder, in perpetuity. Each word can only be claimed once. After you, future purchases get other words. Yours is yours.

It is a certificate of origination for a thing that does not exist. If that is funny to you, this is the product for you.

Hit the flag button on your portal. A staff member reviews the flag and either refunds you, grants additional credits, or — if the flag looks like a bad-faith attempt to keep getting free regenerations — sends an automated reply and closes the ticket. Repeated abuse may get your account suspended.

Yes. Every unlocked word has a public page at reverseswearjar.com/w/{slug}. The leaderboard at /leaderboard ranks them by votes. Anyone can vote on a word, including people without an account.

Yes. We rate-limit anonymous votes per IP per word to keep things sort of honest. If you want your votes credited to a profile, log in.

A live ranking of unlocked words by community vote. You can sort all-time, monthly, or weekly. If you've opted into public attribution, your display name and approximate location appear next to your top words.

Buy words and hope yours go viral. Tell people about them. The system favors votes from many distinct visitors over a small number of repeat votes from the same network. Other than that, the only thing you can really do is pick good words.

You can join the waitlist. We show the live stock count when it gets low. We don't pre-order or charge you in advance — we just notify you when new words are approved. v2 might do pre-orders. Maybe.

We use passwordless email magic links. Type your email, click the link we send you, you're in. There is no password. There is no password to forget. There is no password to leak. There is just an email.

Because passwords are bad and email is everywhere.

For the lifetime of your account. If you delete your account, your unlocked words stay public on their permalinks (since other people may have voted on them or shared them) but are no longer associated with you. If you opted into public attribution, your display name is removed from the public page within a reasonable period.

Yes, in account settings. Display names are unique platform-wide, so if your preferred name is taken, you'll need a different one. We reserve the right to reject names that impersonate, infringe trademarks, or violate the Terms.

Yes, contact us. We retain financial records for up to seven years for tax and dispute reasons, but personal data tied to your account is removed.

Transactional emails (login links, receipts, account alerts) keep coming because you need them. Promotional emails — if you opted into them — have an unsubscribe link in every message. Hit it. We don't take it personally.

A small editorial team. Some of those team members are language models. Every word is reviewed by a human before it enters the pool — the AI generates candidates, a human approves or rejects. Full disclosure is in the AI Novelty Disclosure at /disclaimer.

Three reasons. One: quality control — we get to throw out the duds. Two: cost stability — we know what each word costs to produce. Three: safety — pre-review means we catch slur-adjacent stuff before you see it instead of after. Real-time generation sounded fun on paper but the math didn't math.

Not yet. Possibly in v2. Right now you take what the jar gives you, which is part of the bit.

No. The Terms of Service explicitly prohibit using the Services to harass or target real people, including via AI-generated content. We'll remove any word that we determine targets a specific person, refund associated credits, and if you keep trying, terminate your account.

No. The pool is generated in advance and assigned at unlock without knowing anything about you or anyone you know. Some words describe categories of human behavior so universally that everyone has a coworker who fits. That is a feature, not a coincidence.

If you have a real reason — privacy concern, the word turns out to be a slur we missed, etc. — yes. Contact us. If you just regret your purchase, no. The page stays up because it's part of the public archive of unlocked words and other people may have engaged with it.

You can. They're yours to deploy. We'd just gently note that nobody else knows what your word means, so you'll be doing a lot of explaining. Carrying around a screenshot of the definition is recommended.

We don't grant trademark rights. The word is invented and your unlock gives you a recorded claim of first use, but trademarking a word in a category requires actually using it in commerce in that category. If you want to start a brand of artisanal pickles called "Quibblesnap," that's between you and the USPTO. We will not stop you. We may, however, laugh.

Not currently. The ownership record is tied to the unlocking account. A resale market is something we've thought about for v2 but have not built.

They can't have it. It's already been unlocked. Every word in the pool can only be unlocked once. They'll get a different one.

Because we paid attention to phonotactics — the rules that make English words feel English. The good fictional words sit just inside the boundary of plausibility. That's what makes the bit work.

Someone tweeted that they wanted a reverse swear jar where you put a dollar in and got a new expletive. We took that personally.

Not legal advice, but probably no.

No.

No. v2 maybe.

The site works fine on a phone. No app planned.

If you write fictional dictionary entries for fun and you live in a place where Stripe can pay you, email us. Otherwise no.

Email us. The contact info is on every policy page on the site.