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List Of English Words
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A text file containing over 466k English words.
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While searching for a list of english words (for an auto-complete tutorial)
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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](https://web.archive.org/web/20131118073324/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.
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I pulled out the words into a simple new-line-delimited text file.
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Which is more useful when building apps or importing into databases etc.
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Copyright still belongs to them.
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Files you may be interested in:
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- [words.txt](words.txt) contains all words.
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- [words_alpha.txt](words_alpha.txt) contains only [[:alpha:]] words (words that only have letters, no numbers or symbols). If you want a quick solution choose this.
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- [words_dictionary.json](words_dictionary.json) contains all the words from words_alpha.txt as json format.
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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.
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See [read_english_dictionary.py](read_english_dictionary.py) for example usage.
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