words(5)
NAME
spanish - a list of spanish words
DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/spanish is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic
list of words, one per line.
AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.
FILES
/etc/dictionaries-common/words This is a link to a
/usr/share/dict/<language> file.
/usr/share/dict/words This is linked to /etc/dictionaries-common/words,
it exists for software compatibility.
The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in English, e.g.,
/usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively
lists of French and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be
coded using the ISO 8859 character set encoding.
SEE ALSO
History
- The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
of sources.