Source — Cambridge Dictionary, spellcheck/search-suggestions page for "abhiman" / "obhiman"
- Title: Cambridge Dictionary search-suggestions ("Did you spell it correctly?") pages for "abhiman" and "obhiman"
- Author: unattributed (Cambridge Dictionary's own site infrastructure)
- Publication: Cambridge Dictionary (dictionary.cambridge.org)
- URL: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/search/direct/?datasetsearch=english&q=abhiman (redirects to https://dictionary.cambridge.org/spellcheck/english/?q=abhiman ); same pattern for "obhiman"
- Date: undated (live reference page)
- Accessed: 2026-09-07
- Type: tertiary/lexicographic — a dictionary site's own automated "no entry found" page — neutral, mechanical.
- Access method note: this project's standing fence records that both a direct fetch (403) and the
r.jina.aiproxy (session 51, 54) failed on this word — the proxy silently returned the dictionary's generic homepage rather than an error or a "not found" page, indistinguishable from success without checking content. This session found a working route:curlwith a browser user-agent against the dictionary's own search endpoint (/search/direct/?datasetsearch=english&q=...), rather than the direct entry-page URL (/dictionary/english/...), redirects to a genuine/spellcheck/english/?q=...page — a real "not found" result, not a silent wrong page. The direct entry-page URL, even viacurlwith a browser user-agent, still silently redirects to the generic dictionary homepage (canonicalhttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/) — confirming the entry-page route itself remains a dead end; the fix was switching to the search endpoint, not the fetch method.
Extract
- Both spellings resolve to Cambridge's own spellcheck page, titled "abhiman - Did you spell it correctly. Alternative spellings in the British English Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary" (and the equivalent for "obhiman").
- The page's own text: "Search suggestions for abhiman — We have these words with similar spellings or pronunciations: adman, airman, bagman, barman, batman, binman, bowman, caiman, hitman, human..." — a genuine, unambiguous confirmed absence, the same "not found with spelling suggestions" pattern already on file for Collins and Oxford Learner's (session 54).
- This closes the standing Cambridge gap for abhiman/obhiman (
wiki/words/abhiman.mdDictionary adoption section,NEXT.mdqueue item 1(b)) — no longer "unconfirmed," now a genuine confirmed absence like Collins and Oxford Learner's. - Methodological finding, useful beyond this word: a Cambridge Dictionary search-endpoint URL (
/search/direct/?datasetsearch=english&q=<word>) is a more reliable route to a genuine not-found page than either the direct entry-page URL or ther.jina.aiproxy against it — worth trying first on any future Cambridge lookup that hits the silent-homepage failure mode.
Gaps
- None beyond the ordinary limits of a single dictionary's coverage — this is a clean, unambiguous negative result.