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I Am Writing a Program That Needs a Lot of Words of the English Language. I Am Trying to Find a Dictionary File That Has a Lot of Words. Does Anyone Know of a...
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I am writing a program that needs A LOT of words of the English language. I am trying to find a dictionary file that has a lot of words. Does anyone know of a good source? I tried many sources but they don't seem to have it.
What about /usr/share/dict/words on any Unix system? How many words are we talking about? Like OED-Unabridged?
For an English dictionary .txt file, you can use Custom Dictionary.
You can also generate a list aspell or wordlist with own settings.
Also you can take a look at
Only english words:
Also take a look at:
350,000 words
Very late, but might be useful for others.
There's also WordNet. Its data files format are well-documented.
I used it for building an embeddable dictionary library for iOS developers () and also in one of my apps.
@Future-searchers: you can use aspell to do the dictionary checks, it has bindings in ruby and python. It would make your job much simpler.
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