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Related, is there a high quality plaintext dictionary file for running similar searches? I’ve spent several hours but couldn’t find one that’s both comprehensiv

• koolba 3y ago
  Dictionary or word list? /usr/share/dict/words is always destination zero for words.
• mminer237 3y ago
  https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words_alpha.txt https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words_alph...
• aidenn0 3y ago
  What are your rules for what counts as a "word"? If you go with the basic scrabble rules (i.e. nothing that would be capitalized or punctuated) then YAWL[1] is pretty good, with the downside being the most recent version I know of is from 2008. FYI, rupturewort is the sole 11-letter word answer to TFA in YAWL; found using: grep '^[qwertyuiop]*$' word.list |while read -r line; do echo "${#line} ${line}"; done |sort -n | tail 1: https://github.com/elasticdog/yawl https://github.com/elasticdog/yawl
• praash 3y ago
  Some common Linux distributions have packages that provide word list files to /usr/share/dict/ in several languages. It's likely for English files to be preinstalled. I've had a plenty of fun practising regex and pipes with these word lists!
• layer8 3y ago
  https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/wordlist https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/wordlist
• JoshTriplett 3y ago
  I'd recommend the SCOWL wordlist, which also has usage data (so you can decide how rare of words you want to include).
• jodrellblank 3y ago
  I linked in another comment, I use "enable1.txt" which is here on Peter Norvig's site: https://norvig.com/ngrams/enable1.txt https://norvig.com/ngrams/enable1.txt It's 170k English words, no placenames or people's names or anything like that, but does have some that I question how valid they are.