Does any body know where I can get a list of english words?

[John MacIntyre]

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Thanks in advance.
--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

[Jim Kennedy]

"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2x*******************@news20.bellglobal.com.. .

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Thanks in advance.
--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

You might try the OED. http://dictionary.oed.com/
That would be a much more complete list than the MS stuff. I would contact
them.
Jim

[Jim Kennedy]

"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2x*******************@news20.bellglobal.com.. .

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Thanks in advance.
--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is that
what you are trying to do?
Jim

[John MacIntyre]

"Jim Kennedy" <ke****************************@attbi.net> wrote in message
news:ORXYb.72870$jk2.415614@attbi_s53...

Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is that
what you are trying to do?
Jim

Hi Jim,

That is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I am trying to do. .. no offense taken though.

I'm actually trying to filter out garbage in a parsing app that I am
building.

I appreciate the previous posting, but the hacker idea is not .. I don't
think anyway .. complete enough.

Thanks again,
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

[Lyle Fairfield]

"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in
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"Jim Kennedy" <ke****************************@attbi.net> wrote in
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>

Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is
that what you are trying to do?
Jim

Hi Jim,

That is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I am trying to do. .. no offense taken
though.

I'm actually trying to filter out garbage in a parsing app that I am
building.

I appreciate the previous posting, but the hacker idea is not .. I don't
think anyway .. complete enough.

Thanks again,
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

If you created a Word Application Object you could check eash parsed word
with

WordApplicationObject.CheckSpelling(ParsedWord).

??????????

--
Lyle
(for e-mail refer to http://ffdba.com/contacts.htm)

[osmium]

John MacIntyre writes:

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

There are a lot of freely available lists on the Internet, some of them
aimed at special audiences , such as five-letter words. There are two ways
to find such lists. One way is to use "word list" as a google search
target. The other (and more fun) is to use two or so words that will only
occur together in a dictionary. Such as <ambidextrous avocado>, it's fun
making these things up and see how many hits you can make.

[os moma]

John MacIntyre wrote:

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Thanks in advance.
--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

Hello John,

In Linux you can easily spell-check a file with 'aspell'.

$ aspell -c text.txt

http://freshmeat.net/projects/aspell/
Maybe there is a windows version available.

os moma
http://www.futuredesktop.org/#distrolist

[rkc]

"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2x*******************@news20.bellglobal.com.. .

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

I have a text file that contains 146441 words from the English language.
Each word on a single line followed by a cr/lf.
No definitions.

It's old, most likely not complete, and who knows how accurate.

1.49 MB.

Yours for the price of an email.

Address: Censure Fred Flinstone, bomb to com.

[phobos]

"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in message news:<qj*******************@news20.bellglobal.com> ...

"Jim Kennedy" <ke****************************@attbi.net> wrote in message
news:ORXYb.72870$jk2.415614@attbi_s53...

Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is that
what you are trying to do?
Jim

Hi Jim,

That is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I am trying to do. .. no offense taken though.

But would it not be most perfectly ironic to have your systems
accessed by a cracker who used Access? :-)

[--CELKO--]

Moby Lexicons:

Available in the public domain: Moby Words, Moby Hyphenator,
Moby Part-of-Speech, Moby Pronunciator, Moby Thesaurus, and Moby Language.
FTP: ftp://ftp.let.ruu.nl/pub/colibri/nlp...l/moby.23-1996
E-mail: ma*********@let.ruu.nl " send colibri/nlp/general/moby.23-1996 "
FTP: ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp...ionaries/moby/
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Source: Gary Frank, ga*******@itol.com, via Usenet:comp.ai.nat-lang,
06 Jul 1996.

[Tony Toews]

ph*****@hotmail.com (phobos) wrote:

That is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I am trying to do. .. no offense taken though.

But would it not be most perfectly ironic to have your systems
accessed by a cracker who used Access? :-)

<chuckle>

Tony
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[Hiran Chaudhuri]

John MacIntyre wrote:

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Hi, John.

You might want to have a look at http://dict.leo.org. This is the Munich
University's project for a language dictionary and very complete (>300000
entries). Now there is a special protection so you cannot just download the
word lists, but they have sponsors who also sell their dictionaries.

Hiran

[James Harris]

"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2x*******************@news20.bellglobal.com.. .

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.

[Tony Toews]

"James Harris" <no.email.please> wrote:

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.

Awesome. I use sourceforge hosted apps on my webserver. It never would've occurred
to me to go looking there for a word list.

Tony
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[John MacIntyre]

Thank you everybody for the awesome replies.

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John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

"James Harris" <no.email.please> wrote in message
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"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2x*******************@news20.bellglobal.com.. .

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.

[Benjamin Clark]

"John MacIntyre" <Pl****@reply.to.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2x*******************@news20.bellglobal.com.. .

Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it. ;)

Thanks in advance.
--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

John,

Try installing Linux, and looking at the file /usr/share/dict/words.
My listing has around 45,000 words. (Red Hat release 7.0).

Ben.