Where can I find a good list of words

Question

I am looking for a file that is a list of words and is also customizable by the type of word. For example, something in this format

Nouns: { bus car deck elephant ... } Adjectives { awful bashful ... } Advervb { ... } 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Here is a good list of nouns / verbs ...

Nouns

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-nouns.html

Verbs

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-verbs.html

Adverbs

http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-adverbs.html

Answer 2

The list of MOBY words is almost what you are looking for: http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/mpos.html

This list is also based on the MOBY list: http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/words/partsofspeech.html

Answer 3

One problem is that the type of word depends on usage and context. For example, “root” can be a noun or a verb.

On a Unix / Linux system with aspell installed, this will give you all the words in the dictionary:

 aspell dump master 

Finally, see the related question: Need a free English dictionary or Corpus, ultimately for a MySQL database

Answer 4

Most linux ship flavors with a file called a dictionary. He received all the English words that you might want, but they are not classified.

Answer 5

To get user-accessible output, you need to use ASPELL twice:

aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l ru expand> words

at least according to: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10619/dump-an-aspell-dictionary-as-a-word-list

Here is an example:

  aspell -d en dump master |  aspell -l en expand
 ...
 abases
 abbesses
 abscess
 abscess's
 abscissa
 abuser's
 abusers
 abuse's
 abuses
 abysses
 ...