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Re: Need a dictionary of words in English
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Re: Need a dictionary of words in English


  • Subject: Re: Need a dictionary of words in English
  • From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:59:42 +1100

I'm writing an application that basically does Tegic-like match of words in English, the only problem is, I don't have access to a comprehensive list of English words. NSSpellChecker doesn't seem to offer the facilities I need. Any help would be appreciated.

There's always the "dictionaries" in /usr/share/dict/. Under MacOS X however, unfortunately, they're a bit incomplete - at least compared to Red Hat Linux. You really have to combine them all to get something approaching a complete dictionary, but still missing plurals and so forth.

Nonetheless, it may be sufficient for your needs. For reference, you can read every dictionary in that directory into NSString's in NSArray's in under 2 seconds (on an 800mhz G3 iBook), so performance is not an issue.

Wade Tregaskis
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