[Corpora-List] Looking for English word lists

[Lou Burnard]

You can find such data with just about any word-searching program, as 
others have been quick to point out. A very quick and simple way is to 
just grep through the word frequency lists for the BNC available online 
at http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/bncfreq/flists.html

Lou


peetm wrote:
> I'm very interested in finding a list of n-letter English words: I'm mostly
> after 4 and 5 letter words - and, um - by four letter wordlists, I *don't*
> mean what one might perhaps normally associates with such a term!
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> I'm also interested in two-letter character groupings; that are normally
> found in English, and that are pronounceable - ok, I know that one can
> pronounce anything if one really wants to (ww, qq, zz etc), but I hope my
> request is obvious?  I'd like to find a list that includes 'popular' [good
> term?] groups like 'ab',  'ac', . 'ba', 'be',  . 'za' .
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> Apologies if something like wordnet might actually be queried for lists like
> this [I'm not expert]!  If it can, perhaps some kind soul might tell me how?
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> Ta very much.
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