an-array-of-english-words

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List of ~275,000 English words.
Derived from [the Letterpress word list][letterpress].

Install

[npm][]:

``sh
npm install an-array-of-english-words
`

Use

`js
var words = require('an-array-of-english-words')

console.log(words.filter(d => /fun/.test(d)))
`

Yields:

`js
[
'antifungal',
'antifungals',
'bifunctional',
'cofunction',
'cofunctions',
// …and many more
]
`

API

$3

Array. — List of all English words, lowercased.

CLI

Install the CLI globally:

`sh
npm i -g an-array-of-english-words
`

Now run words to print all the words to stdout:

`sh
words
`

Use grep to filter by pattern:

`sh
words | grep cheese
`

Use egrep to filter with regular expressions:

`sh
words | egrep '^fun' # start with 'fun'
words | egrep 'ification$' # end with 'ification'
words | egrep 'ou?r$' # end in 'or' or 'our'
`

Use wc to find out how many monkey words there are:

`sh
words | grep monkey | wc -l
`

Ten random ten-letter words (note: on macOS, do brew install coreutils to get
[gshuf][shuf]):

`sh
$ words | egrep '^.{10}$' | gshuf | head -10
`

Related

* similar-english-words
* an-array-of-spanish-words
* an-array-of-french-words`

License

[MIT][license] © [Zeke Sikelianos][author]

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[license]: license

[author]: http://zeke.sikelianos.com

[letterpress]: https://github.com/lorenbrichter/Words

[shuf]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuf