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: //stackoverflow.com/questions/2213607/how-to-get-english-language-word-database which refers to //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.