(alphabetical) word lists?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 18 15:14:02 UTC 2009


At 1:48 PM +0800 11/18/09, Randy Alexander wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:
>
>>  Does anyone know of an accessible online list of English words in
>>  alphabetical order?  Essentially what I'm looking for is a browsable
>>  list of words (without definitions, pronunciations, etymologies, or
>>  other entry material) that would be roughly as comprehensive as the
>>  entries in a college dictionary (or larger).  I suppose a Scrabble
>>  word list would be a possibility, but the ones I've found are either
>>  quirky, proprietary, non-functional, or searchable only (and not
>>  browsable).
>>
>
>Have a look at this:
>
>http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/12dicts-readme.html
>
>--
Thanks to you, and to Ben.  An embarras de richesse, which is what I
was looking for.

LH

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