where can I find a good wordlist

Question

I'm looking for a file that is a wordlist and also is set up by type of word. For example something in this format

Nouns: {
    bus
    car
    deck
    elephant
    ...
}
Adjectives {
    awful
    bashful
    ...
}
Advervb {
    ...
}

Any ideas?

Toothed

See also: https://mcmap.net/q/418199/-separate-word-lists-for-nouns-verbs-adjectives-etc word lists for nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. Could your question be a duplicate of the one I linked? – Wilma

Answer 1

Here is a good list of nouns / verbs ...

Nouns

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-nouns.html

Verbs

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-verbs.html

Adverbs

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adverbs.html

Mancunian

Answer 2

The MOBY word list is almost exactly what you're looking for: http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/mpos.html

This list also builds on the MOBY list: http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/words/partsofspeech.html

Messalina

Answer 3

One problem is that the word type depends on usage and context. For example, 'root' can be a noun or verb.

On a Unix/Linux system with aspell installed, this will give you all the words in the dictionary:

aspell dump master

Finally, see the related question: Need free English dictionary or Corpus, ultimately for a MySQL database

Cloudcapped

Answer 4

Most flavors of linux ship with a file called dictionary. It's got all English words you might want, but they are not categorized.

Synchrotron

Where is this dictionary file located? I'm aware of words. The words file is usually stored at /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words. – Dagny

Answer 5

To obtain human readable output, you need to use ASPELL twice:

aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand > words

at least according to: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10619/dump-an-aspell-dictionary-as-a-word-list

Here is an example:

aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand
...
abases
abbesses
abscess
abscess's
abscissa
abuser's
abusers
abuse's
abuses
abysses
...

Pyrrhic