diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e9024a4..379b7ba 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "rustybuzz",
  "skrifa",
  "thiserror",
+ "unicode-script",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/fontheight-core/Cargo.toml b/fontheight-core/Cargo.toml
index 3cc8cde..a68907d 100644
--- a/fontheight-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/fontheight-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ ordered-float = "4.6"
 rustybuzz = "0.20.1"
 skrifa = "0.26.5"
 thiserror = "2"
+unicode-script = "0.5.7"
diff --git a/fontheight-core/src/lib.rs b/fontheight-core/src/lib.rs
index e946538..d039fc9 100644
--- a/fontheight-core/src/lib.rs
+++ b/fontheight-core/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ use skrifa::{
     MetadataProvider,
 };
 use thiserror::Error;
+use unicode_script::UnicodeScript;
+pub use unicode_script::{Script, ScriptExtension};
 
 use crate::{locations::interesting_locations, pens::BezierPen};
 
@@ -166,3 +168,32 @@ pub enum FontHeightError {
     #[error(transparent)]
     Drawing(#[from] SkrifaDrawError),
 }
+
+pub fn discover_font_scripts(
+    font: &skrifa::FontRef,
+) -> Result<ScriptExtension, ScriptDiscoveryError> {
+    let mut empty_cmap = true;
+    let scripts = font.charmap().mappings().try_fold(
+        ScriptExtension::default(),
+        |acc, (codepoint, _)| {
+            empty_cmap = false;
+            let script_extension = char::from_u32(codepoint)
+                .ok_or(ScriptDiscoveryError::InvalidCodepoint(codepoint))?
+                .script_extension();
+            Ok(acc.union(script_extension))
+        },
+    )?;
+    if empty_cmap {
+        Err(ScriptDiscoveryError::EmptyCmap)
+    } else {
+        Ok(scripts)
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
+pub enum ScriptDiscoveryError {
+    #[error("invalid codepoint in cmap: {0:#x}")]
+    InvalidCodepoint(u32),
+    #[error("empty cmap")]
+    EmptyCmap,
+}
diff --git a/fontheight-core/src/word_lists.rs b/fontheight-core/src/word_lists.rs
index 8d6c558..6c101a5 100644
--- a/fontheight-core/src/word_lists.rs
+++ b/fontheight-core/src/word_lists.rs
@@ -7,16 +7,20 @@ use std::{
 
 use thiserror::Error;
 
+use crate::{Script, ScriptExtension};
+
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct WordList {
     name: String,
     words: Vec<String>,
+    scripts: ScriptExtension,
 }
 
 impl WordList {
     pub fn load(
         name: impl Into<String>,
         path: impl AsRef<Path>,
+        scripts: ScriptExtension,
     ) -> Result<Self, WordListError> {
         let path = path.as_ref();
         let file_content = fs::read_to_string(path).map_err(|io_err| {
@@ -29,29 +33,43 @@ impl WordList {
                 .filter(|word| !word.is_empty())
                 .map(String::from)
                 .collect(),
+            scripts,
         })
     }
 
     pub fn define(
         name: impl Into<String>,
         words: impl IntoIterator<Item = impl Into<String>>,
+        scripts: ScriptExtension,
     ) -> Self {
         WordList {
             name: name.into(),
             words: words.into_iter().map(Into::into).collect(),
+            scripts,
         }
     }
 
     // Private API used by static-lang-word-lists
     #[doc(hidden)]
-    pub fn new(name: String, words: Vec<String>) -> Self {
-        WordList { name, words }
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn new(
+        name: String,
+        words: Vec<String>,
+        scripts: ScriptExtension,
+    ) -> Self {
+        WordList {
+            name,
+            words,
+            scripts,
+        }
     }
 
+    #[inline]
     pub fn name(&self) -> &str {
         &self.name
     }
 
+    #[inline]
     pub fn iter(&self) -> WordListIter {
         WordListIter(self.words.iter())
     }
@@ -70,6 +88,16 @@ impl WordList {
     pub fn get(&self, index: usize) -> Option<&str> {
         self.words.get(index).map(|word| word.as_str())
     }
+
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn covers(&self, script: Script) -> bool {
+        self.scripts.contains_script(script)
+    }
+
+    #[inline]
+    pub fn covers_all(&self, scripts: ScriptExtension) -> bool {
+        self.scripts.intersection(scripts) == self.scripts
+    }
 }
 
 impl Index<usize> for WordList {