Small free dictionary

James Hurley jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Aug 18 19:41:05 EDT 2009


The spell checking webinar reminded me of a problem I had with RR and  
word games.

The dictionary I found on the web was 120,000 words and was too big.  
Not because it was too big a file or too slow but because it had words  
that most people never heard of. For example, the anagram words for  
"wen" were "new" of course, but also "wen" which according to the  
dictionary means:

1. Pathology. a benign encysted tumor of the skin, esp. on the scalp,  
containing sebaceous matter; a sebaceous cyst.
2. British. a large, crowded city or a crowded urban district:London  
is the great wen of England.

I noticed in the webinar that the dictionary used there is only 60,000  
words, probably a better size for my needs.

Anybody know if there is a "free" dictionary of that size available  
for download?

Jim Hurley



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