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A word list with over 100,000 entries that are officially permitted in crossword games like Scrabble™. This word list is available in a simple, alphabetically-ordered Excel format, making it convenient for reference, spell-checking, or in more sophisticated application, for developers looking to build a custom spelling dictionary. The entries include variants of words: ...
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Over 64,000 common dictionary words — A list of words in common with two or more published dictionaries. This gives the developer of a custom spelling checker a good beginning pool of relatively common words.
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U.S. place names for more than 10,000 entries. This U.S. place name list is available in a simple, alphabetically-ordered .txt format, making it convenient for reference, spell-checking, or in more sophisticated application, for developers looking to build a custom location tool or database. The entries represent a sampling of U.S. place names: 10,196 places in total.
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A list of over 80,000 words officially permitted in crossword games like Scrabble™ with some but not all of their definitions. The words are compatible with the first edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary™. Since this list has variants of words: -ing, -ed, -s, and so on, it makes a good addition when building a custom spelling dictionary. It is an reference ...
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113,809 official crosswords A list of words permitted in crossword games such as Scrabble™. Compatible with the first edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary™. Since this list has all forms: -ing, -ed, -s, and so on of words, it makes a good addition when building a custom spelling dictionary.
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Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms, or compound words and phrases. This list does not exclude archaic words or significant variant spellings.
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The AOL Search Data is a collection of real query log data that is based on real users. The data set consists of 20M web queries collected from 650k users over three months. These private searches are perfect for research and mining. The data is sorted by anonymous user ID and sequentially arranged. The collection can be used for personalization, query reformulation or ...
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A data set of over a million syllabi gathered by Dan Cohen’s Syllabus Finder tool from 2002 to 2009. It could be the largest collection of syllabi ever gathered by several orders of magnitude.
See a more detailed description on Dan Cohen’s blog
Format
Data are formatted as json records separated by newlines.
Caution: this data is messy and comes with no warranty.
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A common word list with over 250,000 entries of hyphenated, capitalized and compound English words. The download consists of entries containing more than one word, as well as capitalized words and acronyms. Phrases are considered “common” if they or variations of them occur in a standard dictionary or thesaurus. This word list is available in a simple, ...
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This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words as used on the Internet computer network in 1992.
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Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms, or compound words and phrases. Some, but not all of the words have definitions.
This list does not exclude archaic words or significant variant spellings.
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This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words from a wide variety of common texts listed in decreasing order of frequency
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1,185 King James Version frequent substrings (KJVfreq.txt) The most frequently occurring 1,185 substrings in the King James Version Bible ranked and counted by order of frequency.
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467 current fiction substrings (fiction.txt) The most frequently occurring 467 character sequences (n-grams) occurring in a best-selling novel by Amy Tan in 1990.
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4,160 official crosswords delta (crswd-d.txt) When combined with the 113,809 crosswords file, it produces the official crossword list compatible with the second edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. (Scrabble is a registered ...
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6,213 acronyms (acronyms.txt) common acronyms & abbreviations
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Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms, or compound words and phrases. This list does not exclude archaic words or significant variant spellings.
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4,160 official crosswords delta (crswd-d.txt) When combined with the 113,809 crosswords file, it produces the official crossword list compatible with the second edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. (Scrabble is a registered trademark of Milton-Bradley licensed to Merriam-Webster.)
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21,986 names (names.txt)
This database contains the most common names used in the United
States and Great Britain. Spelling checkers may want to supplement
their basic word list with this one.