where is /usr/share/dict/words

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:37:33AM +0900, toyfactory wrote:
> On my Hoary system /usr/share/dict/words is a link to
> /etc/dictionaries-common/words, which doesn't exist.
> 
> I'm looking for a plain text list of English words.  Where can I find it?

apt-get install wbritish (or wamerican)

All word lists:

  $ apt-cache search wordlist|grep ^w|sort
  wamerican - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wamerican-large - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wamerican-small - American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wbritish - British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wbritish-large - British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wbritish-small - British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wbulgarian - The Bulgarian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wcanadian - Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wcanadian-large - Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wcanadian-small - Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wcatalan - Catalan dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wdanish - The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) - wordlist
  wdutch - list of Dutch words in new (August 1996) spelling
  wfaroese - The Faroese dictionary / wordlist
  wfinnish - A small Finnish dictionary for /usr/share/dict
  wfrench - French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wgalician-minimos - Wordlist for Galician (minimos)
  witalian - The Italian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict/
  wngerman - New German orthography wordlist
  wnorwegian - Norwegian wordlist
  wogerman - The old German dictionary for /usr/share/dict
  wpolish - Polish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wspanish - The Spanish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict
  wswedish - The Swedish dictionary
  wswiss - Swiss (German) orthography wordlist
  wukrainian - Ukrainian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict

Marius Gedminas
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