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DWDS MCP — German Digital Dictionary.

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Tools

snippet

Dictionary entry summary for a German word from DWDS.de — part of speech (Wortart), the base lemma, and a link to the full dictionary entry. Example: snippet({ query: "Haus" }).

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lemma

Resolve an inflected German word form to its base lemma (e.g. "Häuser" → "Haus", "ging" → "gehen").

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dwds_frequency

How common a German word is: its absolute hit count and per-million frequency in the DWDS reference corpus. Answers "how frequent is the German word X", "how common is <word>". Example: dwds_frequency

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corpus_concordance

RETIRED — DWDS removed its public corpus-concordance API (corpus search moved to the access-restricted dstar platform). Returns a notice with alternatives: use dwds_frequency for how-common data, snip

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kwic

RETIRED — DWDS removed its public keyword-in-context (KWIC) corpus API. Returns a notice with alternatives: use dwds_frequency, snippet/lemma, or dwds.de for corpus search.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dwds/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/dwds/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"snippet","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("snippet", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("dwds mcp — german digital dictionary");