word list

[tmanka at gmail.com (Ted Manka)]

Here is SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists):

--Ted

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wordlist/scowl-6.zip

On 3/10/07, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> V7 user/dict/words can be a little weird, not having plurals and
> infinitives, because the spell program did stemming, and having
> technical terms common at Bell Labs in the 70's. However, many linux
> distros have followed Gnu/FSF in using Webster 2nd Ed wordlist
> ("web2") as /usr/share/dict/words instead of the v7 'words' file.
>
> V7 or Web2 are probably good enough for most spelling purposes, but
> there are multiple other  wordlists  are better for word-puzzles etc,
> and thus are collected at National Puzzlers' League, e.g., Moby.
> http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=solving:wordlists:about:start
> Currently, files are only available via BitTorrent; FTP & HTTP
> downloads are not working.
> However, Web2 and Web2a are available from Gnu/miscfiles
> [http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/miscfiles.html] , and Moby from
> Gutenberg.
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Educational_content_ideas#Dictionaries
> http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3201 ... 3206
>
> NPL also reference other on-line word-searches.
> http://www.puzzlers.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=misc:dictionaries
>
> These files are also available with a number of password-cracker
> utilities!
>
> V7 usr/dict/words is available at
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/dict/words.html also.
>
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