Dictionary text file [closed]

Answer 1

What about /usr/share/dict/words on any Unix system? How many words are we talking about? Like OED-Unabridged?

Answer 2

Also take a look at:

• http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

Answer 3

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 http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

Only english words: http://www.math.sjsu.edu/~foster/dictionary.txt

Answer 4

There's also WordNet. Its data files format are well-documented.
I used it for building an embeddable dictionary library for iOS developers (www.lexicontext.com) and also in one of my apps.

Answer 5

@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.

Answer 6

http://www.math.sjsu.edu/~foster/dictionary.txt

350,000 words

Very late, but might be useful for others.