Dictionary words for download

Question

Can someone offer a suggestion on where to find a dictionary word list with frequency information?

Ideally, the source would be English words of the North American variety.

Martinmartina

possible duplicate of Natural English language words – Daiquiri

Answer 1

How about this?

Ferriage

You could use Google Refine (code.google.com/p/google-refine) to extract the data like they do in this tutorial video youtube.com/watch?v=45EnWK-fE9k. – Wagshul

Answer 2

Try Kevin's Word List.

http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/

It's opensource, plain text and has many dictionaries.

Deem

Answer 3

Check the following link, contains unigrams/bigrams/trigrams corpus

http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2010/07/20/after-the-deadline-bigram-corpus-our-gift-to-you/

Jelly

Answer 4

I don't know about frequency information but the Open Office dictionaries would be a good place to look for LGPL word lists.

Bussey