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abbieben07/faker-provider-english-words
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A Faker provider for English words.

1.4(4y ago)02482MITPHPPHP ^5.3.3 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

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English Words Provider for PHP's Faker Library
==============================================

[](#english-words--provider-for-phps-faker-library)

#### Why English words? Let me explain.

[](#why-english-words-let-me-explain)

First of all, look at this [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33270023/php-faker-how-to-create-n-unique-words)

Basically, the default [Lorem](https://github.com/fzaninotto/Faker/blob/master/src/Faker/Provider/Lorem.php) provider that comes with the library is very limited when generating **unique** words. The internal lorem-ipsum words-list comes with 182 unique words only.

This provider does just one thing: It extends the default Lorem provider, and changes the word-list with English words (I got the dictionary from [here](https://github.com/dwyl/english-words), I removed a couple of lines however), which contain about **400k** words.

#### Install

[](#install)

```
$ composer require --dev breda/faker-provider-english-words
```

#### Usage

[](#usage)

```
// Assuming everything is auto-loaded
// Create faker
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
// Just make sure the default Lorem provider is not added after this.
$faker->addProvider(new BReda\Faker\Provider\EnglishWords($faker));
```

---

#### Let's test it out

[](#lets-test-it-out)

This will throw this exception Fatal error: Uncaught OverflowException: Maximum retries of 10000 reached without finding a unique value

```
// Create faker
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();

foreach(range(0, 2000) as $i) {
    echo $faker->unique()->word;
}
```

This will not throw an exception and will successfully print 200,000 unique words from the English language.

```
// Create faker
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();
$faker->addProvider(new BReda\Faker\Provider\EnglishWords($faker));

foreach(range(0, 200000) as $i) {
    echo $faker->unique()->word;
}
```

And that's it!

###  Health Score

31

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LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity13

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 71.4% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~238 days

Total

5

Last Release

1823d ago

PHP version history (3 changes)1.0PHP ^7.0

1.1PHP ~7.0

1.2PHP ^5.3.3 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

### Community

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Top Contributors

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