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Clay - 15 Dec 2003 10:53 GMT

Anyone know if it is possible to dump all of the words
that "Word" uses into a specific file? For instance, I'd
like to take the German or Spanish dictionary and create a
word list from it.

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Mike Williams [MVP] - 15 Dec 2003 11:21 GMT

> Anyone know if it is possible to dump all of the words
> that "Word" uses into a specific file? For instance, I'd
> like to take the German or Spanish dictionary and create a
> word list from it.

Short answer: No.

1. It's protected intellectual property. (Owned by a variety of companies)
2. Some spell-checker lexicons are not purely word-lists but rely on
algorithms to concatenate words.

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Clay - 15 Dec 2003 12:53 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>> Anyone know if it is possible to dump all of the words
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>2. Some spell-checker lexicons are not purely word-lists but rely on
>algorithms to concatenate words.

Thanks Mike,

Not the answer I wanted to hear, but oh well... Don't
suppose you know of any files available out there like
what I need??

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Mike Williams [MVP] - 15 Dec 2003 20:27 GMT

> Not the answer I wanted to hear, but oh well... Don't
> suppose you know of any files available out there like
> what I need??

I haven't been looking recently, but one way to get started with what you
need is to start with a large corpus of text (tens of millions of words)
and use a simple script to extract all the unique words.

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