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Looking for a free dictionary database

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:38 pm
by Eraser
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 ;)

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:45 pm
by dzjepp

Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:47 pm
by dzjepp
Or better grab the whole thing at once: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&pwst ... ll&spell=1

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:48 am
by Eraser
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)

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:02 am
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.

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 11:16 am
by dmmh
word

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 6:32 pm
by dmmh
i just combine names and numbers

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:44 pm
by Guest
ur trying to brute force someones msn?

Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 10:49 pm
by phantasmagoria
ToxicBug wrote:ur trying to brute force someones msn?
yes, that's what he's trying to do :icon27:

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 12:37 am
by PhoeniX

Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:54 am
by phantasmagoria
zombiism ey?

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 7:05 am
by Eraser
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