Kevin's Word List Page
This page contains links to various Word Lists and related information.
News
June 17, 2007
A new version of the offical 12Dicts package is now available which
contains several new lists.
August 10, 2004
A new version of SCOWL, VarCon and, Alt12Dicts is now available.
Older News
Packaged by Me
"tar.gz" files has Unix EOL charters and "zip" files has DOS/Windows
EOL characters. Older releases can be found here.
SCOWL
SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) is a collection of word
lists split up in various sizes, and other categories, intended to be
suitable for use in spell checkers. However, I am sure it will have
numerous other uses as well.
readme,
tar.gz,
zip
(rev 6, 2.2 MB) (release notes & changelog)
AGID
AGID is an Automatically Generated Inflection
Database from an insanely large word list. My goal is for the
non-questionable entries to be 100% accurate.
readme,
tar.gz,
zip
(rev 4, 0.9 MB) (release notes & changelog)
VarCon
VarCon (Variant Conversion Info) contains tables to convert between
American, British (both "ise" and "ize" spellings), and Canadian
spellings and vocabulary as well as well as a table listing the
equivalent forms of other variants.
readme,
tar.gz,
zip
(rev 4.1, 0.1 MB) (release notes & changelog)
Part Of Speech Database
The Part Of Speech Database is a combination of "Moby (tm)
Part-of-Speech II" and the WordNet database.
readme,
tar.gz,
zip
(1.2 MB)
Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists
The Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists is a collection of useful Word
Lists created from the Jargon file.
readme,
tar.gz
Ispell English Word Lists
This package contains the contents of the Ispell (ver 3.1.20) word list after
being expand from there affix compressed form used by Ispell.
readme,
tar.gz,
zip
(0.4 MB)
Unofficial Alternate 12 Dicts Package
The Unofficial Alternate 12 Dicts Package contains almost all the
information in the official 12Dicts package but in a different format
as well as a good deal of additional information. However it is not
meant as a replacement for the official 12Dicts package. It simply
offers the information in a different way.
readme,
readme-infl,
tar.gz,
zip
(rev 4, 1.0 MB) (release notes & changelog)
Official 12Dicts Package
12dicts is a collection of English word lists. It differs in several
important ways from most of the other free word lists you can
download.
- The 12dicts lists are oriented towards common words. If you're
looking for myriads of archaic, scientific or computer jargon
words, you should look elsewhere.
- The 12dicts lists have been rigorously checked for errors. (This
is not to say that they are error-free, merely that enough care
has been taken that errors are rather infrequent.)
- 12dicts contains a variety of lists, of different sizes and
characteristics. One size does not fit all. Because each list
has different characteristics, I do not recommend combining
them, except as noted below.
Originally, 12dicts was composed of lists derived from a specific set
of 12 source dictionaries. In addition to these "classic" lists,
12dicts now includes lists derived from other sources. It would
perhaps be appropriate to rename 12dicts to someth ing more generic,
such as BAWL (Beale's Assorted Word Lists), but I have not done so in
order to preserve continuity.
readme,
12dicts-5.0.zip (ver 5.0, 1419 KB)
Additional Information
These wordslists are the basis for the offical English dictionary in
Aspell and the en_US and en_CA dictionary in Hunspell.
Please submit all bug reports regarding these words lists or the
speller dictionaries to the Issue
Tracker.
The latest version of SCOWL and friends can be found in svn.
In order to build SCOWL you will need to check out the trunk directory:
svn co https://wordlist.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/wordlist/trunk wordlist
Than to build SCOWL:
cd wordlist
make
To build the aspell and hunspell dictionaries (you will need Aspell
0.60 installed):
cd scowl/speller
make aspell
make hunspell
General discussion should be directed to the wordlist-devel mailing list.
Sourceforge Project Page
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This site is maintained by Kevin Atkinson
(kevina at gnu org).
