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There are some legit use cases: words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary word
by StreamBright 4y ago
There are some legit use cases:
words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)
- Tempest1981 4y agoAre there other languages besides English and British?
- chipaca 4y ago$ apt-cache search 'words for /usr/share/dict' | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* - //; s/ dictionary words.*//' | sort -u American English British English Bulgarian Canadian English Catalan Esperanto French German medical Irish (Gaeilge) Italian Manx Gaelic Polish Spanish Swedish Ukrainian
- jwilk 4y agoNot every word list package has "words for /usr/share/dict" in the description. $ grep-aptavail -wF Provides wordlist -s Package,Description | tbl-dctrl +===================+=======================================================+ | Package | Description | +-------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+ | wbulgarian | Bulgarian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wbrazilian | Brazilian Portuguese wordlist | | wdanish | The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) - wordlist | | wdutch | list of Dutch words | | wesperanto | Esperanto dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wogerman | Traditional German wordlist | | wngerman | New German orthography wordlist | | wswiss | Swiss (German) orthography wordlist | | wpolish | Polish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wfaroese | Faroese dictionary / wordlist | | wgalician-minimos | Wordlist for Galician (minimos) | | wukrainian | Ukrainian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wportuguese | European Portuguese wordlist | | wgerman-medical | German medical dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | miscfiles | Dictionaries and other interesting files | | wnorwegian | Norwegian word list | | wamerican | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wamerican-huge | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wamerican-insane | 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-huge | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wbritish-insane | 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 | | wcanadian | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wcanadian-huge | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wcanadian-insane | 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 | | wswedish | Swedish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | wfrench | French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | | witalian | Italian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict/ | | wspanish | Spanish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict | +===================+=======================================================+
- capableweb 4y agoThere is indeed. Usually you chose what lists to install as part of installation, otherwise it's just one package install away.