Common words dictionary file

Does someone by chance know of a place where this can be downloaded for non-Unix systems? Tom Yeah, www. Otherwise I think this list is similar: raw. In case you didn't know: This will work on macOS too : — lewis. Show 4 more comments. While this link may answer the question, it is better to include the essential parts of the answer here and provide the link for reference.

Link-only answers can become invalid if the linked page changes. DeanOC: I think it is fairly plain that the "essential parts" of a dictionary would be the entire dictionary. That's not practical to paste here. It's also fairly plain what the usage is: to grab words out of it.

So this is not, in fact, link-only. It's a legitimate recommendation answer on a question that should be and now is closed. I hit Looks OK, for the reasons given: basically, that "link-only" is a whole lot more subtle than "has a link but no code or quote? Note that sufficient Recommend Deletion choices by even 2k users will delete posts. I have personally been responsible for tipping a number of posts off the edge. NathanTuggy You are naturally free to vote as you see fit.

I voted to delete as I see no value in this answer if the link becomes stale. Using app. Specifically wordlist. Rajendra Uppal Rajendra Uppal Looking at the first few, many are not regular English words. Yeah, and has words like "wwwwwww". Not a word. Beware, this link crashes my Firefox because it tries to load the whole file ahahahaha — Andrew. That is likely, but I would have only included one, as from an information perspective that's a redundancy on the list.

But what do I know. I'm fairly sure that you mean to have "not" in there instead of one of the versions of "hot". I'm guessing it's an OCR issue. This is amazing. Thank you so much! Let me know if you need any help proof reading your ReadMes happy to help! What's the source for this list? It's different from many of the others.

For example the word 'because' usually shows up in the top , but is absent here. Mcguy Literally doing the exact same thing right now! I'm writing it in python, hbu? How was this list generated? I'm awfully skeptical that "molecule" and "quotient" are among the thousand most common English words? Skip to content. Sign in Sign up. Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Last active Jan 5, The contractions list contains some words that aren't, strictly speaking, contractions and some very archaic text contractions which you might want to edit out depending on your purposes. If you use any of the downloads, it would be nice if you could provide a link back to this site. But I'm not going to insist on it since I'm not that pushy and you never listen to me anyways ;.

I also have a seperate page that has a just English contractions list. Common English Words List On this page you'll find a downloadable list of common English words that I created that are free for you to use.

What Types of English words are on this List? Most Common Words in English I created the list by analyzing a whole bunch of online news articles using a script I wrote. But I'm not going to insist on it since I'm not that pushy and you never listen to me anyways ; Common English Words Here's a list of a of the most commonly used words in every day english vocabulary.