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DictionaryLookup

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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.
DictionaryLookup[{"lang", patt}]
finds words in the language specified by lang.
  • 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.
  • DictionaryLookup[{"lang", All}] retrieves all words in the language dictionary lang.
  • DictionaryLookup[{All, patt}] retrieves all the languages containing words matching patt.
Look up all English words beginning with "abb":
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Look up all Spanish words beginning with "c", ending with "n" and with an "ñ" in between:
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