Emeka, What you are looking for is a word stemmer. You might want to take a look at something like Porter Stemmer.
-Greg On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Emeka <emekami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a file containing dictionary of words ... I would like to play with > the file in this way. Say I pick a word "Heaves" . I would like to find > other words that could be derive from > "Heaves" > > Have, Haves, eave , eaves, Has, see, eves and so on. I would not want to > use > brute force , I have an algorithm to speed things up. Can somebody help me? > > Regards, > Emeka > -- > *Satajanus Nig. Ltd > > > * >