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Public Domain material by grant from the author, January, 2001.
The vocabulary files included with this product are in ordinary ASCII format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters.
Common acronyms & abbreviations
A list of words in common with two or more published dictionaries. This gives the developer of a custom spelling checker a good beginning pool of relatively common words.
Over 256,700 hyphenated or other entries containing more than one word as well as all capitalized words and acronyms. Phrases were considered 'common' if they or variations of them occur in standard dictionaries or thesauruses.
A list of words permitted in crossword games such as Scrabble(tm). Compatible with the first edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary(tm). Since this list has all forms: -ing, -ed, -s, and so on of words, it makes a good addition when building a custom spelling dictionary.
When combined with the 113,809 crosswords file, it produces the official crossword list compatible with the second edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. (Scrabble is a registered trademark of Milton-Bradley licensed to Merriam-Webster.)
The most frequently occurring 467 substrings occurring in a best-selling novel by Amy Tan in 1990.
This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words from a wide variety of common texts listed in decreasing order of frequency
This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words as used on the Internet computer network in 1992.
The most frequently occurring 1,185 substrings in the King James Version Bible ranked and counted by order of frequency.
This database contains the most common names used in the United States and Great Britain. Spelling checkers may want to supplement their basic word list with this one.
Frequent given names of females in English speaking countries
Frequent given names of males in English speaking countries
Many of the most commonly misspelled words in English speaking countries
A large selection of place names in the United States
Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms, or compound words and phrases. This list does not exclude archaic words or significant variant spellings.
The Constitution of the United States, including the Bill of Rights and all amendments current to 1993.
Accents have been stripped from words, e.g., 'etude' does not mark the accent on the initial 'e'.