Moby Words

354,984 single words

Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms, or compound words and phrases. This list does not exclude archaic words or significant variant spellings.

256,772 compound words

Over 256,700 hyphenated or other entries containing more than one word as well as all capitalized words and acronyms. Phrases were considered 'common' if they or variations of them occur in standard dictionaries or thesauruses.

113,809 official crosswords

A list of words permitted in crossword games such as Scrabble(tm). Compatible with the first edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary(tm). Since this list has all forms: -ing, -ed, -s, and so on of words, it makes a good addition when building a custom spelling dictionary.

4,160 official crosswords delta

When combined with the 113,809 crosswords file, it produces the official crossword list compatible with the second edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. (Scrabble is a registered trademark of Milton-Bradley licensed to Merriam-Webster.)

74,550 common dictionary words

A list of words in common with two or more published dictionaries. This gives the developer of a custom spelling checker a good beginning pool of relatively common words.

21,986 names

This database contains the most common names used in the United States and Great Britain. Spelling checkers may want to supplement their basic word list with this one.

4,946 female names

frequent given names of females in English speaking countries

3,897 male names

frequent given names of males in English speaking countries

10,196 places

a large selection of place names in the United States

1,000 by frequency

This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words from a wide variety of common texts listed in decreasing order of frequency

1,000 by frequency internet

This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words as used on the Internet computer network in 1992.

6,213 acronyms

common acronyms & abbreviations

1,185 King James Version frequent substrings

The most frequently occurring 1,185 substrings in the King James Version Bible ranked and counted by order of frequency.

467 current fiction substrings

The most frequently occurring 467 substrings occurring in a best-selling novel by Amy Tan in 1990.

USA Constitution

The Constitution of the United States, including the Bill of Rights and all amendments current to 1993.

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