diff --git a/src/data/database b/src/data/database
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diff --git a/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelled.js b/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelled.js
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diff --git a/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelled.mjs b/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelled.mjs
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+++ b/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelled.mjs
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+import Knex from 'knex';
+import Spellchecker, { isMisspelled } from 'spellchecker'
+
+const db = Knex({
+  client: 'sqlite3', // or 'better-sqlite3'
+  connection: {
+    filename: "../database"
+  }
+})
+
+const getWords = async (db) => {
+    return db
+    .select("word")
+    .from("dictionary")
+}
+
+const words = await getWords(db)
+console.dir(words)
+for (const element of words) {
+  if(isMisspelled(element.word)){
+    try {
+      await db('dictionary')
+      .where('word', element.word)
+      .del()
+      console.log("deleted non-word " + element.word)
+    } catch (error) {
+      console.error(error.message)
+    } finally {
+      console.log()
+    }
+  }
+  console.dir(element.word)
+}
+
+try {
+  db.destroy()
+} catch (error) {
+  console.error(error.message)
+}
diff --git a/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelledWords.cjs b/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelledWords.cjs
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--- a/src/data/scripts/deleteMisspelledWords.cjs
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-const Spellchecker = require("spellchecker")
-const sqlite3 = require("sqlite3").verbose()
-const db = new sqlite3.Database("../database")
-
-db.serialize(() => {
-    db.each("SELECT * FROM dictionary", [],
-        function (err, row) {
-            if (err) {
-                return console.error(err.message)
-            }
-            if (Spellchecker.isMisspelled(row.word)) {
-                db.run("DELETE from dictionary WHERE word=?", [row.word], function (err) { if (err) { return console.error(err.message) } })
-                console.log(`deleted non-word ${row.word}`)
-            }
-        },
-        function (err, rows) {
-            if (err) { return console.error(err.message) }
-            console.log(`${rows} rows`)
-            db.close()
-            console.log("db closed")
-        })
-})
-