The word list itself contains 69,903 words, and takes up
665,681 bytes (that's about two-thirds of a megabyte). There are
also 69,903 lines in the file, since each word is on a line by itself.
I.e, the file (which is called wordlist )
is big and long, and so are most of the words in it. This in turn means
that
many if not most of the words are rare, obsolete, or simply weird.
Furthermore, the entire file is in lower case, including all the proper
names.
However,
you can look up the strange words at
1911
version of Roget's
Thesaurus,
I made this list from these sources as an exercise in applying Unix tools,
and as something
to give my students something to play with. That's all it is.
It may be useful to you, which is why I put it here. Or it may not.
You can do whatever you like with it; it's your language, after
all. For instance,
if you were using Unix
(or
Linux),
and you were curious about the English words that
ended in
-ically,
or the ones that started with
antid-,
then
the
egrep
(or
grep)
commands
To save this list on your disk, go to the "File" menu of your Web browser
after it's done downloading and you've looked at it
all you want, and choose Save As. Then you
can move the file
wordlist to
wherever you'd like.
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