english-words
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A text file containing over 466k English words.

While searching for a list of english words (for an auto-complete tutorial)
I found: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2213607/how-to-get-english-language-word-database which refers to [http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/word-list-350000-simple-english-words-excel-readable](https://web.archive.org/web/20131118073324/http://www.infochimps.com/datasets/word-list-350000-simple-english-words-excel-readable) (archived).

No idea why infochimps put the word list inside an excel (.xls) file.

I pulled out the words into a simple new-line-delimited text file.
Which is more useful when building apps or importing into databases etc.

Copyright still belongs to them.

Files you may be interested in:

-  [words.txt](words.txt) contains all words.
-  [words_alpha.txt](words_alpha.txt) contains only [[:alpha:]] words (words that only have letters, no numbers or symbols). If you want a quick solution choose this.
-  [words_dictionary.json](words_dictionary.json) contains all the words from words_alpha.txt as json format. 
If you are using Python, you can easily load this file and use as a dictionary for faster performance. All the words are assigned with 1 in the dictionary.
See [read_english_dictionary.py](read_english_dictionary.py) for example usage.