How to get english language word database

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I need a database of every single valid word in English  I checked the  usr share dict words file  it contains less than 100k words  Wikipedia says English has 475k words   Where do I get the complete list  American spelling    Also  is there a single website that gives out words for other languages too  including Asian and European ones   Edit  Forgot to add  I do not need names etc   just valid English words

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WordNet database might be helpful  I once worked on a Firefox add-on which deals with words and all kinds of simple to complicated associations between them and stuff  Looks like WordNet will be very much useful to you   Here it is in MySQL format  And this one  web-archived link  uses Wordnet v3 0 data  rather than the older Wordnet 2 0 data

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You may check  spell en-GB dictionary used by Mozilla  OpenOffice  plenty of other software

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I do not see http   wordlist sourceforge net  mentioned here  but that is where I would start if I were looking for something like this  and I was  when I stumbled over this question    If you cannot find what you want there  and what you want is a list of english words  then you should probably spend some extra time describing how to recognize what it is that you want

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There s no such thing as a  complete  list  Different people have different ways of measuring -- for example  they might include slang  neologisms  multi-word phrases  offensive terms  foreign words  verb conjugations  and so on  Some people have even counted a million words  So you ll have to decide what you want in a word list

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You didn t say what you needed this list for  If something used as a blacklist for password checks is enough cracklib might be good for you  It contains over 1 5M words

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You can find what you need on infochimps org   They have a list of 350 000 simple  ie non-compound  words available for free download   Word List - 350 000  Simple English Words  Regarding other languages  you might want to poke around on Wiktionary   Here is a link to all the database backups - the information isnt organized so likely but if they have a language  you can download the data in SQL format

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