dwyl/english-words
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:memo: A text file containing 479k English words for all your dictionary/word-based projects e.g: auto-completion / autosuggestion
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-11-23 · latest 2026-03-27
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https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
comment by oyahud · 2026-03-27 · in Show HN: Think Fast. Type Faster -
https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words_alph...
comment by mminer237 · 2023-08-24 · in The longest word you can type on the first row -
…errors on a trained dictionary (using a cleaned version from the words_alpha.txt file here: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words I built Website Linter by re-using the infrastructure from the startup I work for, but you can use it on any…
comment by joshdsouza · 2022-03-27 · in Show HN: Catch layout and spelling mistakes at pull request time -
There is also /usr/share/dict/words or https://github.com/dwyl/english-words which can be used.
comment by andopp · 2022-01-11 · in Solving Wordle with Z3 -
…size. Bff is ~5x slower than 'wc -w' ... which is not unexpected, but still slightly disappointing. https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words.txt?...
comment by apankrat · 2019-11-24 · in Beating C with one line of Brainfuck -
…Guess how much disk space a word list of 479,000 words takes up? Oh, only 4.5 megabytes. (see: https://github.com/dwyl/english-words ) It would be extremely easy to build an index of words, number them, then correlate them to GPS…
comment by t0mbstone · 2017-10-30 · in Nigeria has become the seventh country to adopt what3words for mail deliveries -
…_core_ words [1]. Here's a list of 355k words [2]. [1] http://learnersdictionary.com/3000-words [2] https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
comment by croon · 2016-11-23 · in NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know