javascript list of english words for a game

Question

I'm making a simple JS game that needs a list of English dictionary words. Will I need to build the list myself, or is it possible to access the system's or browser's spell-check dictionary - or maybe there's another solution?

Moffatt

Have you checked out this? dreamsteep.com/projects/the-english-open-word-list.html You could at least get the words from that list which would remove the task of handwriting every single word. – Lesialesion

Use the list from a friendly neighborhood Linux installation. /usr/share/dict/words has almost 100,000 words in it. – Revers

That English Open Word List looks great! But somewhat dated...looks like it hasn't been updated in 15 years (not a HUGE deal, but yes, lots of words get added each year) – Introject

You can take a look at Aspell as well. It has english dictionary (ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html). To dump world list from the dictionary checkout superuser.com/questions/137957/…. – Chammy

Answer 1

You can use Aspell English dictionary.
Aspell English dictionary is availabe at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html.

To dump world list from the Aspell dictionary checkout:

• https://superuser.com/questions/137957/how-to-convert-aspell-dictionary-to-simple-list-of-words
• http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10619/dump-an-aspell-dictionary-as-a-word-list
• http://aspell.net/man-html/Dumping-the-Contents-of-the-Word-List.html

The command to dump English list of words should look something like:

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

Chammy

Answer 2

Easiest solution that I found is getting a text or JSON file from anywhere(on web) which contains all the English words(not meanings like in dictionary). I got it from this repository, this contains a text file and a JSON file.

You can easily read data from JSON file using javascript or other programming languages.

Callboard

Answer 3

with node you can install random-words

npm install random-words

import it and you're done:

var randomWords = require('random-words');
console.log(randomWords());

requirebin

Handclasp

Worth noting that Random Words includes a very small subset of the English language – Titration

Answer 4

The wordlist for Firefox spellchecking seems to come from this repository: https://github.com/marcoagpinto/aoo-mozilla-en-dict. So you could download it there to get a word list.

You can also install the dictionary as addon (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/language-tools/) but I don't know if or how the dictionary-addons can be accessed with JavaScript directly from inside the browser.

Coincidental

Careful, there are some naughty and rather offensive words in here. Depending on their use, they may not be words you want appearing in your product. – Ladonnalady

Answer 5

Was looking for a simple JSON endpoint I could use for a workbook - wound up uploading one to github:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jesseditson/1e6b2b524814320515ccfe7e2f856eda/raw/17d61fa1e80e14b13c4525b09f84148772586b59/words.json

Landfall

Answer 6

you can to use this:

https://www.javascriptspellcheck.com/JavaScript_SpellChecking_Dictionaries

there are many languages:

 Afrikaans (South Africa)
 American English (USA)
 Australian English
 Brazil (Modern Brazilian Portuguese)
 British English (UK)
 Catalan (Catalonia)
 Canadian English
 Danish Dictionary (Dansk)
 Dutch & Flemish (Nederlands)
 Gaelic
 German Dictionary (Deutsch)
 French (Francais)
 Frisian (Frysk, Seeltersk & Mooring)
 International English
 Italian (Italiano)
 Malaysian (Bahasa Malaysia)
 Portuguese (Portugues - Brazil and Portugal)
 Spanish (Espanol - Americas & Spain)
 Swedish (Svenska)
 Welsh (Cymric)

Presswork

Answer 7

As Linked by @aryaman , I too used that GitHub page when I needed an Array for Auto-correct TextBox. https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words.txt[][1]

But If you are looking for a Javascript Array Soultion, Just Create a Python File in the Same directory as The words.txt file and type this into Python File

filepath = 'words.txt'
print("var anyname = [")
with open(filepath) as fp:
   for cnt, line in enumerate(fp):
       print("'{}',".format(line))
print("]")

Just Copy Paste the Output to your Code File and Done !

! Note - It's really big file, I recommend you to use this one from the same respoitory https://github.com/dwyl/english-words/blob/master/words_alpha.txt[][1] . It contains words without any Numbers. Also, Python Script could take 2-3 hours, mine is currently running that's why I'm writing this. I will soon Edit The Answer with Direct Link to File if it is done !

Forgave

Answer 8

I recently found the following npm repo which contains a list of English words from here.

https://github.com/danakt/spell-checker.js

npm i spell-checker-js

const spell = require('spell-checker-js')

// Load dictionary
spell.load('en')

// Checking text
const check = spell.check('Some text to check, blahblahblah, olololo')

console.log(check)
// -> ['blahblahblah', 'olololo']

Titration

Answer 9

you can get a worlist here http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui.html .. look for the WORDLIST link on the right

Fourinhand

Answer 10

try this:

let theWord = 'green'

const validateWord = async() => {
  let failed = false;
  //Check if it is a valid english word
  await fetch(
    `https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/${theWord}`
  ).then((response) => {
    if (response.status == "404") {
      alert("Please Enter Valid Word");
      failed = true;
    }
  });
  return !failed;
}

Christmastide