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amongussusususu opened this issue Dec 1, 2022 · 4 comments
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amongussusususu opened this issue Dec 1, 2022 · 4 comments

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im trying to execute the .sh file but i cant can i have the full file so i can download it

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hackerb9 commented Dec 2, 2022

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is that the biggest version without removed words?

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hackerb9 commented Dec 2, 2022

No. For all 29 million "English words" that Google's corpus contains, please see

https://github.com/hackerb9/gwordlist/raw/master/frequency-all.txt.gz

Note that Google only published entries which appeared at least 40 times.

I should warn you that there are not 29 million different English words. Even the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary contains less than a quarter million words. Which means the "all" list is 99% tripe. You'll find OCR errors like the word "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII" (spelled with up to 75 Is!) and email addresses for the various journals they scanned.

I prefer to use the lists that have been filtered either by dictionary or frequency count. As it happens, when I removed all entries not found in any of three different online dictionaries, I ended up with about a quarter million words, which seems about right.

If you find a better way to prune out the garbage words, or if there is something missing from my shortened lists, please let me know.

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hackerb9 commented Dec 2, 2022

P.S. I fixed the shell script so it is not in github's LFS any more so it should run on your machine easily.

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