Aspell and Kevin's English Word List

GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature is that it does a superior job of suggesting possible replacements for a misspelled word than just about any other spell checker out there for the English language. Unlike Ispell, Aspell can also easily check documents in UTF-8 without having to use a special dictionary. Aspell will also do its best to respect the current locale setting. Other advantages over Ispell include support for using multiple dictionaries at once and intelligently handling personal dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at once.

Try it out for your self using the Aspell Spell Helper or see some Test Results Comparing Aspell with other spell checkers.

Kevin's Word List Page contains links to various Word Lists and related information. They are intended to be suitable for use in spell checkers. However, I am sure they will have numerous other uses as well.

Links to other General Word Lists

• ENABLE, YAWL
• The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary (UKACD), plus others
• UK English wordlist with frequency classification, plus linkes to many other lists with frequency info.
• BNC Corpus Frequency Info
• Moby, Alternate Site
• english.words DEC-SRC-92-04-05, Alternate Site
• Large Collection of Word Lists
• National Puzzlers' League -- Word Lists

Links to Online Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster
• American Heritage
• Random House
• Webster's New World (Search Currently Broken)
• Encarta
• Wordsmyth
• WordNet
• Cambridge (ESL)
• Longman (ESL)
• Macquarie (Australian)
• 1913 Webster's: ARTFL, Bibliomania, dict.org, Ralph
• OneLook (Meta)
• More: YourDictionary, Randy's Links

Links to Slang Word Lists and Dictionaries

• American
  • Common American Slang
  • American-Australian Slang Dictionary
  • ESL Slang Page
  • Canadian/US Slang
• British
  • A dictionary of slang
  • British Isles Slang
  • British Slang Glossary
• Australian
  • Australian Slang
• Cajun
  • Cajun Slang
• Computer/Internet
  • Computer/Internet Slang
• Miscellaneous
  • Miscellaneous Slang
• The Alternative English Dictionary

Links to Specialty Word Lists and Dictionaries

• Jargon File (Also known as The New Hacker's Dictionary)
• The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
• U.S. Census Bureau Names Files with frequency info.

Other Links

• Aspell
• The American-British British-American Dictionary