You can try the ENABLE word list. It's open source, made for Scrabble-like word games and therefore doesn't contain a lot of proper nouns or other "illegal" words.
There's a link to it here... http://www.crosswordman.com/wordlist.html --Todd, who still thinks that "zen" should be a legal word On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Anthony Pace <anthony.p...@utoronto.ca>wrote: > Do you just need a list of words or do you need their definitions too? > > > Mark Winterhalder wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Paul Steven <paul_ste...@btinternet.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Can anyone point me in >>> the direction of where to acquire an electronic version of the English >>> dictionary that is easily incorporated into my game? >>> >>> >> >> Sure: <http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/latest/> >> It's under the GNU Free Documentation License, not sure how that >> applies to what you're trying to do. In any case, as all the other >> Wikimedia/Wikipedia projects, it's an interesting dataset. >> >> HTH, >> Mark >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
