Word Lists

These word lists are useful for puzzle solvers and the like.

• freq-words.txt.gz, freq.txt.gz: Frequently Used Word List
  This list of about 52,000 words is based on Peter Norvig's 300,000 word ngram frequency list, which was built from Google's Web Trillion Word Corpus; this list was filtered to include only "reasonable" words. Each word is accompanied in freq.txt.gz by its frequency of use in the Google corpus; freq-words.txt.gz contains only the words. The file README-freq.md in this distribution contains copyright and license as well as other information, including a detailed description of list construction.

• count_1w.txt.gz: This is from Peter Norvig's Natural Language Corpus Data. This data was in turn derived from the Google Web Trillion Word Corpus. The file contains "the 1/3 million most frequent words, all lowercase, with counts." This data is made available by Norvig under the MIT License.

  The file README-count_1w.md in this distribution is taken from Peter Norton's page.

• eowl.txt.gz: The English Open Word List (EOWL)
  This list is compiled by Ken Loge based on the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary by J. Ross Beresford. It is reasonably comprehensive, with the significant limitation that it only includes words of 10 or fewer letters. The file README-eowl-official.html in this distribution contains copyright and license as well as other information.

• scowl.txt.gz, scowl-nn.txt.gz: Spell Checker Oriented Word List (SCOWL)
  Kevin Atkinson compiled this list from a variety of sources. The default list here is the "size 60 american" list. The file README-scowl-official.txt in this distribution contains copyright and license as well as other information. The files README-scowl-nn.txt contain source and settings information for the various dictionaries: the information for the default scowl.txt.gz is in README-scowl-60.txt.

• yawl.txt.gz, yawl-sig.txt.gz, yawl-all.txt.gz: Yet Another Word List
  From Aaron Bull Schaefer's GitHub archive of Mendel Leo Cooper's word list built with the assistance of Alan Beale. yawl-sig.txt is a small list of optional words that might be added to yawl.txt: yawl-all.txt.gz is the sorted concatenation of these lists. The files README-yawl-official.md and README-yawl-original.md in this distribution contain copyright and license as well as other information.

• enable2k.txt.gz: ENABLE 2K Word List
  The Enhanced North American Benchmark LExicon (ENABLE) word list was constructed as a high-quality alternative to copyrighted official Scrabble dictionaries by Alan Beale and others. It is generally more permissive than EOWL, although it is not a superset.

  This "2K" edition is the latest available edition I am aware of, downloaded from the Internet Archive here. This list was placed in the Public Domain by its creators.

  The file README-enable2k.txt in this distribution is taken from the official distribution of ENABLE 2K. It contains copyright and license as well as other information.

To use these lists, gunzip them. The result will have UNIX line-endings (ASCII LF) which may need help on non-UNIX boxes. The shell script mkdict.sh may be useful in installing these on your machine.

The Scrabble™ SOWPODS/NASPA list and the Collins list are not made available here due to copyright concerns.

License

This work is made available under the "MIT License". See the file LICENSE.txt in this distribution for license terms.