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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. Unicode dictionaries, which require the latest Crosswords, are listed separately below.
Unicode dictionaries
Dictionary notes[1] BasEnglishBasEnglish 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]CollegeEngThis 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]SOWPODSSOWPODS 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]ODS5ODS5 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]ITALIANOFor 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]OWL2These dictionaries come from list that is equivalent to the OWL2 tournament list introduced for March 1, 2006 sent by a Crosswords user. [8]PortugueseBRFile produced for the BrOffice Group (www.broffice.org), adapted for Erivelton Muniz. [9]PortuguesePTFrom a wordlist being compiled by the Language and Document Processing group at Minho University. [10]CSWFrom a user-submitted wordlist said to be equivalent to "Collins Scrabble Wordlist". [11]CSWThis 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. |