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Eraser
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Looking for a free dictionary database

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I'm looking for a database (or maybe even a flat text file) containing all the words from the english dictionary. I'd like to have something like that but couldn't be arsed to type over the entire english dictionary (would take 3 life times).

Now there must be some freely downloadable database or something right? And even if it isn't free and you know about it, let me know. Even if you can be arsed to type over the entire dictionary and finish it before the end of the week, let me know ;)
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Or better grab the whole thing at once: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pwst ... ll&spell=1
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Thanks for the help, but those dictionary files are in somekind of proprietary .ev format, which won't do me good. I can find piles upon piles of free translators or dictionary applications, but what I want is not an application that works as dictionary, but just a list of words from the dictionary so I could, for instance, write my own dictionary software (or, what I'm really wanting to use it for, writing language games like literati (scrabble) or something)
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Post by mrd »

Just download a brute-force program. They usually come with a text file with (almost) every word in the dictionary in it, seperated by carriage returns.
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[i]And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine patris, et fili, et spiritus sancti.[/i]
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Post by dmmh »

i just combine names and numbers
[i]And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be. In nomine patris, et fili, et spiritus sancti.[/i]
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ur trying to brute force someones msn?
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Post by phantasmagoria »

ToxicBug wrote:ur trying to brute force someones msn?
yes, that's what he's trying to do :icon27:
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zombiism ey?
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PhoeniX wrote:http://www.circlemud.org/pub/jelson/boggle/unpacked/dictionaries/anye-dictionary.txt any good?
Looking good.
Is zyzzyvas a word though? :shrug:

edit:
fuck me, it is:
Any of various tropical American weevils of the genus Zyzzyva, often destructive to plants
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