Every language.
The words they bury.

Not every word. The ones that matter.

There are roughly 7,000 living languages. Nobody has a complete, verified list of every curse in every one of them. This site is a living starter atlas: national and major regional languages, big creoles, ten signed languages, plus a serious sample of the profanity speakers actually use. Severity is approximate. Meaning is approximate. Culture is not. Use it as a map, not a courtroom transcript.

Method

Each language card is a curated starter set, not a dictionary. Entries favor words speakers actually reach for: workhorse intensifiers, high-impact insults, and a few culturally specific systems (Quebec sacres, Russian mat, Dutch disease curses, Italian bestemmie). Romanization is practical, not academic. Slurs are labeled and hidden by default. The ▶ button uses your browser’s speech engine — an approximation, not a native speaker. Signed languages have no clip.

This is an editorial project, not a peer-reviewed corpus. Native speakers will disagree on severity and sense. Treat the list as a map.

What a slur means here

A slur tag means the word is commonly used to target a group — gender, sexuality, disability, religion, ethnicity, or ancestry — not merely that it is rude. Documented is not recommended. Do not copy these into a stranger’s face and call it linguistics.

Educational / linguistic reference. Strong language throughout. Last expanded 30 September 2026 — 190 languages.

Changelog

• 2026-09-30 Mobile nav, sticky header, shareable language hashes, absolute social image, JSON-LD, focus and copy feedback.
• 2026-09-29 Click ▶ on a word to hear the browser pronounce it (no hosted audio files).
• 2026-09-29 Irish amadán / óinseach; German Scheißhaus; Swiss German Schi3haus / Schisshuus.
• 2026-09-29 Jump to 189 languages including creoles and signed languages.
• 2026-09-29 Across-tongues view, word search, compare, slur filter, first-visit gate.
• 2026-09-28 Public atlas: 50 languages, static hosting build.