WordList

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`WordList`

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WordList[]

gives a list of common words.

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WordList[type]

gives a list of words of the specified type.

Details and Options

The following types are supported:

	"CommonWords"	common words (default)
	"KnownWords"	known dictionary words
	pos	common words that can be a given part of speech
	{"type",pos}	inflected, known, etc. words filtered by part of speech
	"Stopwords"	words like "the" that are often considered insignificant

Core parts of speech are: "Noun", "Verb", "Adjective", "Adverb", "Preposition", "Conjunction", "Pronoun", "Determiner", and "Interjection".
WordList supports the following options:
IncludeInflections False whether to include inflected forms of words

Language $Language what language to use

Examples

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Basic Examples (1)Summary of the most common use cases

Get a list of common English language words:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-h5pn9f

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List common English language nouns:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-la5938

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Options (2)Common values & functionality for each option

Language (1)

Get a list of all available Spanish language words:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-m1lvog

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Language specifications can be strings, or "Language" entities:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-lktvso

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IncludeInflections (1)

With IncludeInflections->True, inflected forms will be included in results:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-bi2j0d

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With IncludeInflections->False, only uninflected words will be returned:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-m80bse

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Applications (2)Sample problems that can be solved with this function

Generate a list of common English words:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-vr01w

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Find the most frequent characters at the beginning of words:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-ov2unu

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Visualize the relative frequencies in a word cloud:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-c92pw

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Compare to the most frequent characters globally:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-bb70in

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-qsbd3z

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Generate lists of common words for a set of languages:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-i3vfi3

Compute the length of each of these words:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-fdsqi4

Compare the distribution of numbers of characters per word for each language by overlapping histograms of relative frequencies:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-bs98yo

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Combine the histograms to show total counts of lengths for all languages together:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-izjc42

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Possible Issues (2)Common pitfalls and unexpected behavior

Part-of-speech definitions may not be available for all language settings:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-l1w7rj

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Not all languages have available word lists:

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https://wolfram.com/xid/0cq048d2-713ycb

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