The IIIT 5K-word dataset is harvested from Google image search. Query words like billboards, signboard, house numbers, house name plates, movie posters were used to collect images. The dataset contains 5000 cropped word images from Scene Texts and born-digital images. The dataset is divided into train and test parts. This dataset can be used for large lexicon cropped word recognition. We also provide a lexicon of more than 0.5 million dictionary words with this dataset.