List Of English Words
A text file containing over 466k English words.
While searching for a list of english words (for an auto-complete tutorial)
I found: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2213607/how-to-get-english-language-word-database which refers to https://www.infochimps.com/datasets/word-list-350000-simple-english-words-excel-readable (archived).
No idea why infochimps put the word list inside an excel (.xls) file.
I pulled out the words into a simple new-line-delimited text file.
Which is more useful when building apps or importing into databases etc.
Copyright still belongs to them.
Files you may be interested in:
- words.txt contains all words.
- words_alpha.txt contains only [[:alpha:]] words (words that only have letters, no numbers or symbols). If you want a quick solution choose this.
- words_dictionary.json contains all the words from words_alpha.txt as json format.
If you are using Python, you can easily load this file and use it as a dictionary for faster performance. All the words are assigned with 1 in the dictionary.
See read_english_dictionary.py for example usage.
I need a database of every single valid word in English. I checked the /usr/share/dict/words file, it contains less than 100k words. Wikipedia says English has 475k words. Where do I get the complete list (American spelling)?
Also, is there a single website that gives out words for other languages too, including Asian and European ones?
Edit: Forgot to add, I do not need names etc., just valid English words.
pigrammer
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WordNet database might be helpful. I once worked on a Firefox add-on which deals with words and all kinds of simple to complicated associations between them and stuff. Looks like WordNet will be very much useful to you.
Here it is in MySQL format. And this one (web-archived link) uses Wordnet v3.0 data, rather than the older Wordnet 2.0 data.
Graham
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answered Feb 6, 2010 at 16:09
user266803user266803
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You can find what you need on infochimps.org.
They have a list of 350,000 simple (ie non-compound) words available for free download.
Word List — 350,000+ Simple English Words
Regarding other languages, you might want to poke around on Wiktionary. Here is a link to all the database backups — the information isnt organized so likely but if they have a language, you can download the data in SQL format.
answered Feb 6, 2010 at 15:35
danbendanben
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I do not see http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ mentioned here, but that is where I would start if I were looking for something like this (and I was, when I stumbled over this question).
If you cannot find what you want there, and what you want is a list of english words, then you should probably spend some extra time describing how to recognize what it is that you want.
answered Feb 6, 2012 at 14:25
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There’s no such thing as a «complete» list. Different people have different ways of measuring — for example, they might include slang, neologisms, multi-word phrases, offensive terms, foreign words, verb conjugations, and so on. Some people have even counted a million words! So you’ll have to decide what you want in a word list.
answered Feb 6, 2010 at 16:21
JW.JW.
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You may check *spell en-GB dictionary used by Mozilla, OpenOffice, plenty of other software.
answered Feb 6, 2010 at 17:20
mloskotmloskot
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You didn’t say what you needed this list for. If something used as a blacklist for password checks is enough cracklib might be good for you. It contains over 1.5M words.
answered Feb 6, 2010 at 15:45
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База данных английских слов в простом формате
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