Spell Checking Oriented Word Lists (SCOWL)
-Version 2017.01.22
-Sun Jan 22 17:39:13 2017 -0500 [fbc7107]
+Version 2020.12.07
+Mon Dec 7 20:14:35 2020 -0500 [5ef55f9]
by Kevin Atkinson (kevina@gnu.org)
The SCOWL is a collection of word lists split up in various sizes, and
To give you an idea of what the words in the various sizes look like
here is a sample of 25 random words found only in that size:
-10: argue arguing believe center character clear comparing corrects exact
- extreme get idea irritates kept linking notes observing occurred printers
- regulations remembered scores show signs unite
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-20: advocates classifying commandment competent culprit cumulative
- differential earning extensions mature obeys optic orientating overloaded
- perception prisoners proofs puzzled restrictions retaining rock sister
- stuffing terrorists unfounded
-
-35: aides ascetic braiding clung conquerors dispassionate edicts equalized
- exposition gardenias glamour godmothers handlebars huffs impudent lunge
- masterful needled paddocks pots raping shouldered snooker sprawled
- tomcats
-
-40: boobed carjackings crapped floozies footsie freethinkers gassiest
- genuflecting geriatric globetrotter innovate jukebox marinaded menorah
- nannies neutralization piously premarital rekindling riverbed stilts
- stonewall swimmer tattletale twerps
-
-50: aglitter amazon blinders boggier cerebra coiffuring discernment flintlock
- interstices japanned katydid lagniappes loganberry lorgnette misdealt
- monograph peripatetic polliwogs radicalism schoolhouse seismic soppier
- suffused trisected wastrel
-
-55: bedsit candida coaxingly completions contextualization cutaways
- functionalism handsaw hardboard hyperinflation hypnotherapy inglenooks
- isotherms jobshare naffer outguns playgroup precariousness remaster
- ruched seltzers straitlaced trainspotting woad yukky
-
-60: basinfuls bastardization blueness charlatanism dater dispassion duper
- glutinously goofball greeters imitable lacewing misspeak nickering
- nonbelligerent noneffective nonindependent premix resize retarder
- southeaster steerable talky tarantellas ungoverned
-
-70: apostrophic bioecology celoms chloropicrin choli diapause dithyramb
- doorsill eluder ergotisms geomagnetically hispid inebriant lobelia
- meatman osteitides overprescribes plausibleness quadroon quincunx
- sacculate tache toxics trophoplasm unenthusiastically
-
-80: angledozers arrogancies beadledoms centesis cryobiologist entrepreneuses
- estafettes floriation forgivingness glucosamines hairlocks hoofprint
- intraventricular keffiyahs keloidal lunateds posttranslational rewinded
- sandspurs seeable sparlings starstone underarmed unmarriageableness
- upgrowing
-
-95: amusively anabrus anglophily atrophous augustin bachelry barbarianize
- coadjacence cothe hemicardia inblowing jardini lindo mallear manx
- morcellement olericulturist oversliding palsier pertinate proctoptosis
- recollectednesses rowdyishly tinta unsplattered
+10: attempt base borrows clever cold concerned contribution decide deletes
+ easiest inclined mine natural obviously opportunity organized pain
+ potential signed significance standing survey this training trick
+
+20: brave comma confining conviction delicious embedding enlarging equations
+ era farmer flip frustrates keystrokes officers peoples personalities
+ principally restarts revert risks singular sneaky stealing sweep
+ traditionally
+
+35: bantered barrens bronzing chisel debtors doorstep earache elaborating
+ expressly glistened humping joyfully leashes lofting logician obsessions
+ paralytics pillowed portrayals pruned rarities reconfigured scrupulous
+ tempos uncommoner
+
+40: astrologer bestsellers busboys childproofed clapboarded crispiest
+ embroiling enfranchises enthused exorcists firebrand gringo irresponsibly
+ matchstick missteps oinks pocketfuls reinventing scorecard streetlights
+ temped turncoat voyeur warmongering wimps
+
+50: apologias assay biochemists brashness brattier councilman detainees
+ discontentedly ethnology evincing excoriation halberd housemothers
+ humdinger moraines permutes pilaf purebred putsch quadrature
+ secularization skyjacking snowsuit transmuted zeppelins
+
+55: articulacy bookbinders chapati faffing gunge hotpots hurtfulness innit
+ kaleidoscopically leching megastars ockers paperclips pedestrianization
+ peeler plainsong rand righto stationmasters sundecks tossers triathletes
+ turbocharges twitchiest yobs
+
+60: allurements bespangle centripetally dashers eclogue estoppel ethologist
+ gleaners gratingly imputable jobholder mendicancy minnesingers muscats
+ nontransparent nosher obtrusion parasympathetics patroons
+ phosphorescently reforging reintegrate stringiness transecting vixenishly
+70: animalisms bestializing blague chlorpromazine decury dolmans ecclesiology
+ hymnody incommutable listers lucubrator methodic mizenmasts monochord
+ natality ninepence pyrogenic rath sabayons serenata shitwork superlunary
+ talapoin unresigned whickered
+
+80: batatas diapente discipled doofuses faintheartednesses geophagous gooky
+ grandeurs hypesthesic kagouls mandataries minimalized operettists
+ pseudoephedrine readvertizing rumblegumption sabermetrics scritches
+ sextonship simuliums superspectaculars thickoes tripersonalism unmoneyed
+ whinstones
+
+95: adalat afdecho basirhinal crossopodia decalomania earthmaker gaudeamuses
+ guanayes haemodoraceous hardsalt heterostrophies kadikane mastoidale
+ misconceited osteoarthrotomy perpetuant photolyte querulation
+ splenonephric storymaker thrangity turgider unquailingly unthriftlike
+ wirrah
And here is a count on the number of words in each spelling category
(american + english spelling category):
Size Words Names Running Total %
- 10 4,426 13 4,439 0.7
- 20 8,124 0 12,563 1.9
- 35 37,258 222 50,043 7.6
- 40 6,853 491 57,387 8.7
- 50 25,224 18,221 100,832 15.3
- 55 6,489 0 107,321 16.3
- 60 14,141 774 122,236 18.6
- 70 35,506 7,912 165,654 25.2
- 80 144,283 33,370 343,307 52.2
- 95 227,674 86,649 657,630 100.0
+ 10 4,425 13 4,438 0.7
+ 20 8,126 0 12,564 1.9
+ 35 37,260 220 50,044 7.6
+ 40 6,858 489 57,391 8.7
+ 50 25,289 18,683 101,363 15.4
+ 55 6,487 0 107,850 16.4
+ 60 14,551 850 123,251 18.7
+ 70 35,294 7,897 166,442 25.3
+ 80 144,158 33,368 343,968 52.3
+ 95 227,633 86,630 658,231 100.0
(The "Words" column does not include the name count.)
CHANGES:
+From Version 2019.10.06 to 2020.12.07
+
+ Various new words.
+
+ Variant cleanups.
+
+ Bump irregardless, froward (+ derivatives) and perpend to level 70.
+
+From Version 2018.04.16 to 2019.10.06
+
+ Various new words.
+
+ Remove compare's and fail's.
+
+From Version 2017.08.24 to 2018.04.16
+
+ Various new words.
+
+ Fix build problems on macOS.
+
+From Version 2017.01.22 to 2017.08.24
+
+ Various new words.
+
From Version 2016.11.20 to 2017.01.22
Various new words.
Add schema and scripts for creating a SQLite database from SCOWL.
Add some utility and library functions using them. This database is
- used by the new web app's (http://app.aspel.net/lookup & create).
+ used by the new web app's (http://app.aspell.net/lookup & create).
Enhance speller/make-hunspell-dict. The biggest improvement is that
it that it now generates several more dictionaries in addition to
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+The collective work is Copyright 2000-2018 by Kevin Atkinson as well
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+ Copyright 2000-2018 by Kevin Atkinson
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