words is a standard file on UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.
Download the tarball or zip file from the releases page or just clone the repository git clone git://github.com/saltedcoffii/words.
Unpack the tarball (if needed), cd into words/dict , and symlink your preferred language to words. Example:
ln -sv american-english wordsAs root, copy the dist file to /usr/share/dict or /usr/local/share/dict. On extremely ancient systems c. 1990, it might be /usr/dict.
Your package manager likely offers a this file in a package called words or wordlist.
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