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]

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


"John MacIntyre" <Please@reply.t o.group.thx> wrote in message
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> 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
>
>
>[/color]
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]

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


"John MacIntyre" <Please@reply.t o.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2xXYb.7241 $Cd6.629310@new s20.bellglobal. com...[color=blue]
> 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
>
>
>[/color]
Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is that
what you are trying to do?
Jim

[John MacIntyre]

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

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammer sfamily@attbi.n et> wrote in message
news:ORXYb.7287 0$jk2.415614@at tbi_s53...[color=blue][color=green]
> >[/color]
> Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is that
> what you are trying to do?
> Jim[/color]


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]

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

"John MacIntyre" <Please@reply.t o.group.thx> wrote in
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> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammer sfamily@attbi.n et> wrote in
> message news:ORXYb.7287 0$jk2.415614@at tbi_s53...[color=green][color=darkred]
>> >[/color]
>> Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is
>> that what you are trying to do?
>> Jim[/color]
>
>
> 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[/color]

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

WordApplication Object.CheckSpe lling(ParsedWor d).

??????????

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

[osmium]

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

John MacIntyre writes:
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> 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. ;)[/color]

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]

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

John MacIntyre wrote:[color=blue]
> 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
>
>
>[/color]
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]

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


"John MacIntyre" <Please@reply.t o.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2xXYb.7241 $Cd6.629310@new s20.bellglobal. com...[color=blue]
> 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. ;)[/color]

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]

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

"John MacIntyre" <Please@reply.t o.group.thx> wrote in message news:<qjYYb.725 5$Cd6.636337@ne ws20.bellglobal .com>...[color=blue]
> "Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammer sfamily@attbi.n et> wrote in message
> news:ORXYb.7287 0$jk2.415614@at tbi_s53...[color=green][color=darkred]
> > >[/color]
> > Or find a hacker that has a dictionary for a dictionary attack or is that
> > what you are trying to do?
> > Jim[/color]
>
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> That is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I am trying to do. .. no offense taken though.[/color]

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

[--CELKO--]

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

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: mail-server@let.ruu. nl " send colibri/nlp/general/moby.23-1996 "
FTP: ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp...ionaries/moby/
WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
FTP: ftp://ai.uga.edu/pub/natural.language/moby

The Austin Code Works, 11100 Leafwood Lane, Austin, Texas 78750-3587, U.S.A.
Telephone: 512-258 0785.
Facsimile: 512-258 1342.
E-mail: info@acw.com
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Source: Gary Frank, garyfrank@itol. com, via Usenet:comp.ai. nat-lang,
06 Jul 1996.

[Tony Toews]

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

phobos2@hotmail .com (phobos) wrote:
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>> That is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I am trying to do. .. no offense taken though.[/color]
>
>But would it not be most perfectly ironic to have your systems
>accessed by a cracker who used Access? :-)[/color]

<chuckle>

Tony
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[Hiran Chaudhuri]

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

John MacIntyre wrote:
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> 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. ;)[/color]

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]

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


"John MacIntyre" <Please@reply.t o.group.thx> wrote in message
news:2xXYb.7241 $Cd6.629310@new s20.bellglobal. com...[color=blue]
> 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. ;)[/color]

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

[Tony Toews]

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

"James Harris" <no.email.pleas e> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>[/color]
>Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.[/color]

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]

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

Thank you everybody for the awesome replies.

--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer

http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

"James Harris" <no.email.pleas e> wrote in message
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>
> "John MacIntyre" <Please@reply.t o.group.thx> wrote in message
> news:2xXYb.7241 $Cd6.629310@new s20.bellglobal. com...[color=green]
> > 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. ;)[/color]
>
> Try http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.
>
>
>[/color]