words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs.[1]
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To make Stardict working with certain dictionary, the folder of the dictionary should be placed to /usr/share/stardict/dic/. Here is how to do it: 1) Go to where extracted dictionaries stored. Finally, you can install any other language you wish if you have the dictionary files. See below to download them. SCOWL itself is a compilation of the information in the database into a set of simple word lists that can be combined to create speller dictionaries of various sizes and dialects (American, British (both -ise and -ize), Canadian and Australian). Download Version 2018.04.16 as: tar.gz (Unix EOL), zip (DOS/Windows EOL). Words is a standard file on all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words. [Note: the file contained at /usr/share/dict/words has more words than the one at /home/SRUNET/david.dailey/words, though the latter may be more appropriate for. The /usr/share/dict/words file is a symbolic link managed using the Debian “alternatives” system. A common word list package providing that link is the wamerican package. The package documentation for wamerican states its word list comes from the SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) project.
The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.
On Debian and Ubuntu, the words file is provided by the wordlist package, or its provider packages wbritish, wamerican, etc. On Fedora and Arch, the words file is provided by the words package.
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^Tushar, Shantanu (2013). Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook. Birmingham, UK.: Packt Publishing. pp. 219–220. ISBN978-1-78216-275-9.
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A text file containing over 466k English words.
While searching for a list of english words (for an auto-complete tutorial)I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2213607/how-to-get-english-language-word-database which refers to http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/word-list-350000-simple-english-words-excel-readable (archived).
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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.
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 as a dictionary for faster performance. All the words are assigned with 1 in the dictionary.See read_english_dictionary.py for example usage.