---
title: "Lists available lexical categories in a dataset"
method: GET
path: "/lexicalcategories/{language}"
tags: ["Utility"]
---

# Lists available lexical categories in a dataset

`GET /lexicalcategories/{language}`

Returns a list of available [lexical categories](documentation/glossary?term=lexicalcategory) for a given language dataset.

## Path parameters

- `language` 'es' | 'en' | 'lv' | 'nso' | 'zu' | 'ms' | 'id' | 'tn' | 'ur' | 'hi' | 'sw' | 'ro' | 'de' | 'pt' | 'ta' | 'gu', required

## Headers

- `app_id` string, required
- `app_key` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful response.

- UtilityLabels — Schema for lexicalcategories, registers utility endpoints.
  - `metadata` object — Additional Information provided by OUP
  - `results` object — Mapping of labels available.

## Other responses

- `404` — Unknown language.
- `500` — Internal Error. An error occurred while processing the data.

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