[Haskell-cafe] How can I get a list of all English words?

[Norman Nunley]

It reads like you want to verify that a given word in a string exists in a
list of (english) words.

https://github.com/dwyl/english-words seems to contain a large user
contributed list of english words (~450k). It seems to contain a number of
loan words as well as potentially made up words, so caveat emptor.

As far as testing for membership - I'd suggest building up a Data.Trie.Set (
https://hackage.haskell.org/package/trie-simple-0.4.1.1/docs/Data-Trie-Set.html).
The trie data structure provides a reasonably compact representation of
strings, and Sets provide a function to test if a given word is a member.

On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 11:37 AM mukesh tiwari <mukeshtiwari.iiitm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Amber,
>
> Can you give one example, or a test case? If you need every English word,
> you need to read a English dictionary, which has all the words, and store
> it in map, or hash-map, because list would be very slow for accessing the
> words. (is it the case that you want to break a line, e.g., “brown fox
> jumped over the lazy dog” into list of words, [brown, fox, jumped, over,
> the, lazy, dog]?)
>
> Best,
> Mukesh
>
> On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 at 16:25, Amber Crawford <aidancrawfordd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm creating a project in which I need a list of every English word, so
>> I'm wondering how I would get this. The only thing I need is that I can
>> filter the words based on some boolean function, thanks. btw I'm pretty
>> beginner so sry If i'm not really good at writing these.
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