words

words, a dataset directory which contains some examples of collections of words.

Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Related Data and Programs:

chain_letters, a dataset directory which contains several examples of chain letters.

ngrams, a dataset directory which contains information about the observed frequency of "ngrams" (particular sequences of n letters) in English text.

text, a dataset directory which contains actual "texts", such as the Gettysburg Address;

Datasets:

• anagram_dictionary.txt, a list of 89,059 words used by James Cherry's anagram program;
• basic_english_850.txt, a list of 850 words used by Charles Ogden as part of his definition of Basic English, in Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar;
• basic_english_2000.txt, a list of 2,007 words, including the 850 from the lowest level of Basic English, extended by some more general words;
• bigram.html, a list of two-letter words with meanings or definitions.
• doublet_words.txt, 5,551 words from the glossary to Lewis Carrol's book on "Doublets", also known as "word ladders" or "word golf".
• gettysburg.txt, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, stored as three long lines of text, separated by two blank lines;
• globish.txt, 1501 words that form the core of Globish, a "Global English" vocabulary for international business, popularized by Jean-Paul Nerriere in "Don't Speak English, Parlez Globish!".
• knuth_words.txt, a list of 5,678 five-letter words used by Donald Knuth for demonstrations of the Stanford Graph Base (SGB); This file includes a great deal of annotation.
• lorem_ipsum.txt, the "Lorem Ipsum" block of text used as printer's dummy text for hundreds of years. The text was extracted from a work by Cicero, but chopped up somewhat. In particular, the opening phrase "Lorem ipsum" is actually pulled from Cicero's phrase "Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet,...";
• pentagram.html, a list of about 32,500 five-letter English words and names, with definitions, in alphabetical order, one per line, along with some explanatory text and slight HTML coding;
• sgb_words.txt, a list of 5,757 five-letter words used by Donald Knuth for demonstrations of the Stanford Graph Base (SGB);
• simplified_english.txt, a list of 815 words used in a version of Simplified English, a form of English with a restricted basic vocabulary, used aerospace engineering;
• special_english.txt, a list of 1477 words used in Special English, a form of English with a restricted basic vocabulary, used in broadcasts by the Voice of America;
• unique_grams.txt, a list of 47 long English words with no repeated letters, in alphabetical order, one per line;
• wordlist.txt, a list of 300,260 English words, in alphabetical order, one per line;
• wordlist_fives.txt, the 16,153 five-letter words from wordlist.txt.
• wordlist_threes.txt, 1005 three letter words.