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DictionaryLookup

DictionaryLookup[patt]
finds all words in an English dictionary that match the string pattern patt.

DictionaryLookup[patt, n]
gives only the first n words found.

No word stemming is done by default, so words like "jump", "jumps" and "jumping" appear separately.

By default, words appear as they would within a sentence. Setting the option IgnoreCase->True retrieves words whose letters appear in different cases.

Look up all words beginning with "abb":

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