# I need to find a word list **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739 "2002-12-19T04:00:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![High\_Deity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@High\_Deity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Deity)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/1 "2002-12-19T04:00:30Z")
What I’m looking for is a text file that has a bunch of words (sorting doesn’t matter, I can do that myself). The Oxford English Dictionary would be nice (just the words, nothing else). I’m trying to find something in this format: \ word word word word \ Thank you to all. And no, I’m not trying to brute-force any passwords (that would take forever anyway). ---
**Author:** ![XPav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b77776/32.png) [@XPav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XPav)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/2 "2002-12-19T04:12:49Z")
[http://www.outpost9.com/files//wordlists/](http://www.outpost9.com/files//wordlists/) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/3 "2002-12-19T04:16:26Z")
Look around in Google for the “YAWL list” which is a public domain listing of every word allowable in SCRABBLE. ---
**Author:** ![High\_Deity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9a140/32.png) [@High\_Deity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Deity)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/4 "2002-12-19T04:26:33Z")
“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” The longest word in the YAWL list. Who on earth thought of that one? ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia\_Pestis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@Yersinia\_Pestis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia_Pestis)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/5 "2002-12-19T11:09:56Z")
and how do you put it on a scrabble board? hyphenate? ---
**Author:** ![trader\_of\_shots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trader\_of\_shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trader_of_shots)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/6 "2002-12-19T12:35:51Z")
High Deity - just out of curiosity, is this for a brute force attack ? Trying to figure what reasan you would need it for. ---
**Author:** ![andy\_fl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@andy\_fl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andy_fl)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/7 "2002-12-19T12:41:35Z")
Maybe he wants to find the 3rd word ending in -gry :d ---
**Author:** ![trader\_of\_shots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trader\_of\_shots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trader_of_shots)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-to-find-a-word-list/143739/8 "2002-12-19T12:45:40Z")
I sense i am out of the joke on this one ☹ There is no third word… Just Angry and Hungry… … i get ya now. soz - My spelling issues cloud my sense of humour sometimes 🙂