Does any body know where I can get a list of english words?

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"John MacIntyre" <Please (AT) reply (DOT) to.group.thx> wrote

Quote:

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it.

Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.

#12

"James Harris" <no.email.please> wrote:

Quote:

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.

Awesome. I use sourceforge hosted apps on my webserver. It never would've occurred
to me to go looking there for a word list.

Tony
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#13

Thank you everybody for the awesome replies.

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John MacIntyre
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"James Harris" <no.email.please> wrote

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"John MacIntyre" <Please (AT) reply (DOT) to.group.thx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it.

Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.

#14

"John MacIntyre" <Please (AT) reply (DOT) to.group.thx> wrote

Quote:

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it.

Thanks in advance.
--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

John,

Try installing Linux, and looking at the file /usr/share/dict/words.
My listing has around 45,000 words. (Red Hat release 7.0).

Ben.

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Re: Does any body know where I can get a list of english words? - 02-22-2004 , 02:59 PM

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