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What is the biggest / largest / best list of words in the English language? Something in a simple text file would be great.

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What about the UNIX (FreeBSD) list?

Here is a list of dictionaries and word lists. And another. Yet another.

cletus
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if you're looking for prose instead of word lists (for instance, if you need to calculate Irequencies of common words), the gutenberg corpus is a nice start.

Triptych
This is a great resource. One project I was thinking of doing was to test the infinite monkey theorem (Put enough Monkeys in a Room and they'll write ____) ... so this will work great. However, I have to mark the other one as an answer since it was more inline with the question I asked.
ultimazombie88
you can still upvote me :)
Triptych