Downloading Crosswords Dictionaries for PalmOS

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The 2 and 8 in a name like BasEnglish2to8 mean that it includes words from 2 to 8 letters in length.

LanguageNameBytes on deviceWord count Notes
Czech czech2to5 94078 34163 [11]
Danish Danish_2to8 175779 95480
Danish_2to9 242812 137000
Danish_2to15 732202 363989
Dutch Dutch_2to8 130135 51234 [6]
Dutch_2to9 187883 74349 [6]
Dutch_2to15 556230 162999 [6]
English BasEnglish2to8 4292 799 [1]
CollegeEng2to8 101213 41871 [2]
CSW2to15 738414 267750 [10]
CSW2to9 338486 155302 [10]
CSW2to8 251529 114575 [10]
OWL2_2to15 380437 178689 [7]
OWL2_2to9 251733 112817 [7]
OWL2_2to8 189038 83667 [7]
SOWPODS2to15 688846 246691 [3]
SOWPODS2to9 316059 145400 [3]
SOWPODS2to8 238908 108553 [3]
French ODS5_2to8 142329 103900 [4]
ODS5_2to9 193031 160473 [4]
ODS5_2to15 313635 378989 [4]
German German2to8 125011 36598
German2to9 193508 53828
German2to15 715250 125683
Italian Italian2to8 132650 74532 [5]
Italian2to9 195294 114046 [5]
Italian2to15 552730 238909 [5]
Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese2to8 163225 49036 [8]
Portuguese2to9 243517 71048 [8]
Portuguese2to15 685154 141637 [8]
Spanish FAA_41_Spanish2to8 197543 177815
FAA_41_Spanish2to9 264426 277277
FAA_41_Spanish2to15 525238 636593

Dictionary notes

[1] BasEnglish

BasEnglish is a tiny wordlist created in the 1930s for language learners. I got it on the web long ago and can no longer find it. I include it to have a sample dictionary that takes up very little room when included with default downloads, but most folks find the robot too easy to beat when using this dictionary.

[2]CollegeEng

This was a list provided with Niggle, the old freeware Palm game that was purchased and rebranded as "Official Scrabble" by Handmark. I like this list because it gives the robot a vocabularly closer to mine and so me a chance to win occasionally.

[3]SOWPODS

SOWPODS is a wordlist used in Scrabble™ tournaments, particularly outside the US. These dictionaries were built using the BYOD site by a Crosswords user who has access to the real list.

[4]ODS5

ODS5 is, or so French users have told me, the preferred list for Scrabble™ play in French after 1 Jan. 2008. You can get it here, as I did.

[5]ITALIANO

For the Italian dictionaries I simply googled for an appropriate-looking list. The one I found is "copyleft"ed, and bears the contact information of its creator:

 Luigi M. Bianchi                           Internet:
 York University, Atkinson College          lbianchi@sol.yorku.ca
 4700 Keele Street                          bianchi@nexus.yorku.ca
 North York, Ontario
 M3J 1P3 Canada                             Telefono: 416 736-5213
                                            Telefax:  416 736-5103
If you know of a better publicly-available wordlist for Crosswords in Italian, please let me know.

[6]Dutch

These dictionaries come from a list called "Dutch__unofficial_alphabetical" sent by a Crosswords user.

[7]OWL2

These dictionaries come from list that is equivalent to the OWL2 tournament list introduced for March 1, 2006 sent by a Crosswords user.

[8]PortugueseBR

File produced for the BrOffice Group (www.broffice.org), adapted for Erivelton Muniz.

[9]PortuguesePT

From a wordlist being compiled by the Language and Document Processing group at Minho University.

[10]CSW

From a user-submitted wordlist said to be equivalent to "Collins Scrabble Wordlist".

[11]CSW

This list comes from the official site of the Czech scrabble asociation. The list itself is here. . This is a free list named Blex-Klasik, contains 2-5 letters words which are officially allowed in czech scrabble.