After considerable search on the Internet, I found a free, good and extensive word list for English that IMHO contains all words (nouns and verbs with their endings as separate entries) one would ever need in common communications: http://www-01.sil.org/linguistics/wordlists/english/. It has a size of 109582. I like very much to know similar word lists for other languages, in particular for German and French.
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So you're requesting ~7000 word lists?– Natalie ClariusCommented Dec 11, 2016 at 13:38
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@lemontree: The larger the list that contains words with all their different endings and capable of being fairly naturally used in common communications of the people, the better will be the list for purposes of my applications.– Mok-Kong ShenCommented Dec 12, 2016 at 10:38
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1The problem is not with the length of the word lists, but with the sheer amount of possible lists from different languages there are. You are asking for any word list from any language. That's way too broad for a question on this site; you'd need to make your request more specific.– Natalie ClariusCommented Dec 12, 2016 at 16:52
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@lemontree: I am particularly interested in 3 other languages: German, French and Russian. In French there is in book form from Le Robert: Dictionnaire des mots croisés et mots fléchés which has even 300000 entries but the contents of such resources are not to be freely downloaded.– Mok-Kong ShenCommented Dec 12, 2016 at 17:40
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1Look at aspell. You can extract wordlists for many languages, with all sorts of conjugations and declensions expanded– MitchCommented Dec 16, 2016 at 3:20
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Yes there are.
There are several choices:
- Wiktionary Filter the entries by category language to generate language specific word lists. Lots of additional information (POS, inflection, meanings, translations) are available
- Wortschatz (Uni Leipzig), a CLARIN resource, provides corpora in 200 languages. You can download corpora for the language you are interested in and generate wordlists out of it. Good for getting at frequency information and collocations.
answered Dec 12, 2016 at 13:30
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1The Wiktionary pages you will want to use are Category:French lemmas and Category:French non-lemma forms (replace French with your language of choice). Commented Dec 13, 2016 at 16:20
I think you can use BabelNet, which is (from WikiPedia) "multilingual lexicalized semantic network and ontology... It was automatically created by linking Wikipedia, to the most popular computational lexicon of the English language, WordNet". By using their API, I think you can easily write a script to extract the words in their database from the languages they offer (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Russian, Spanish, ... )
Any general purpose dictionary will help, generally the ones that are published by the language associations.
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Commonly a dictionary entry is a principal word and a list of possible endings, in particular for verbs. I need a list whose individual entries are words with endings, e.g. go, goes, going, went, gone. Commented Dec 12, 2016 at 10:46
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It is hard to find since those endings are produced by grammatical rules, generally people don't bother. Besides this, arabic is a special case, so it has lots of dictionaries/lists like you desired. For starting you can check almaany.com– kabraxisCommented Dec 12, 2016 at 14:53
You can also see https://www.sketchengine.co.uk/word-lists/ The word lists for English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Each language has a longer word list for all words (unrecognized according to PoS categories) and shorter word lists for particular PoS categories, such as German nouns, German verbs, German adjectives, etc.
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Only up to 500 words are available for free, at least in German. Commented Sep 6, 2019 at 16:51
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Yes, there are available only 500 items in several language on that page. However, when you create a 30-day free trial you can download up to 1,000 items in 90+ languages.– RodrigoCommented Sep 9, 2019 at 5:40