# Do not use these banned words in Dall-E prompts

OpenAI doesn’t allow certain words to be used in the DALL-E prompts.

It can lead to wasted prompts, that cost money to you or even lead to your Dall-E account getting suspended.

Banned words in DALL-E
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This is not an exhaustive list and there might be others. Basically, just stay away from writing words in your DAL-E prompts that you might not say in front of a small child.

Some of the words may not be outright banned but are banned when used in certain contexts.

Here is the list:

*   attack
*   attacking
*   blood
*   call-girl
*   cannibal
*   clockwork orange
*   cocktail
*   corpse
*   damn
*   David Lynch
*   dead
*   Donald Trump
*   droogs
*   Fagaceae
*   Fagales
*   Fagus
*   fart
*   fighting
*   fighting
*   flat
*   furry art
*   Garry Trudeau
*   Geneva
*   gook
*   gore
*   Grant Morrison
*   gun
*   headshot
*   hell
*   hentai
*   Joe Biden
*   John Carpenter
*   Karl Marx
*   kidnapping
*   Kim Jong Un
*   knickers
*   knife
*   latex
*   lesbian
*   lingerie
*   Miley Cyrus
*   missile
*   nailed
*   nuclear
*   nuke
*   Pierre-Auguste Renoir
*   pissed
*   Quentin Tarantino
*   red head
*   red liquid
*   red puddle
*   revolver
*   riot
*   scimitar
*   sexy
*   sheeple
*   sheets
*   shirtless
*   shooting
*   skull on fire
*   stereotypical
*   sword
*   taking covid-19 test
*   tar and feathers
*   terror
*   ugly
*   unicycle
*   Virgin
*   war
*   wars
*   world war 2
*   WW2