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I am writing a program that needs a list of English words as a source file for it to work. I realise that these source files are available for students writing games such as Hangman or Crossword solvers but I am having trouble locating such a source file and wonder if anyone knows how I can attain one without slowly scraping websites and buildin开发者_Go百科g up a dictionary manually.

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

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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

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Also take a look at:

• http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

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

350,000 words

Very late, but might be useful for others.

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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.

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@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.