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:memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion
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Not a good list #136

Open JohnB-R opened 2 years ago

JohnB-R commented 2 years ago

I'm British and old, so I know a few words. There are many in the 370,000+ which I have never heard of. Nor have some online dictionaries, e.g. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ So I won't be using this list. Thanks but shame.

nelsonic commented 2 years ago

@JohnB-R thanks for your valued feedback. 👌🏻 if you find a better free list of English Words, please share. Thanks very much. 🙏

JohnB-R commented 2 years ago

http://www.gwicks.net/dictionaries.htm looks good. The first one with 84,000 words. Sadly, US, but that's fine for my purpose: finding solutions to quordle. I had problems with the encoding. And there were some odd characters that looked like f and ' which I deleted using RegEx in Notepad++.