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 This means that words from the "next 5" (French, Russian, Indonesian/Malay, Japanese, and Swahili) are not considered candidate words unless they have a related word (a true or false cognate) in any of the other nine source languages. For example, the word **to** 'that' is based on Japanese と (to) and related to Russian что (što) – without this related candidate, it would not have been eligible for selection and hence could not have made it into the dictionary.
-On the other hand, candidates from the "top 5" (English, Mandarin Chinese. Hindustani, Arabic, and Spanish) are eligible for selection even if they don't have any related candidate. For example, **twi** 'leg' is from Chinese 腿 (tuǐ); there are no related (similar) words in any of the other source languages.
+On the other hand, candidates from the "top 5" (English, Mandarin Chinese. Hindustani, Arabic, and Spanish) are eligible for selection even if they don't have any related candidate. For example, **tvi** 'leg' is from Chinese 腿 (tuǐ); there are no related (similar) words in any of the other source languages.
 All candidate words are sorted first by the number of related candidates and only then by their total penalty, which means that words that have at least one related candidate will always be preferred over those that have none. Hence the candidates from the "top 5" languages without any related candidates will be placed at the end of the candidate list, after all candidates that do have related candidates. So they can be considered as "choices of last resort" that are only considered if no candidate word has (true or false) cognates in other source languages.