an-array-of-english-words
List of ~275,000 English words.
Derived from the Letterpress word list.
Install
npm:
npm install an-array-of-english-words
Use
var words = require('an-array-of-english-words')
console.log(words.filter(d => /fun/.test(d)))
Yields:
[
'antifungal',
'antifungals',
'bifunctional',
'cofunction',
'cofunctions',
// …and many more
]
API
anArrayOfEnglishWords
Array.<string> — List of all English words, lowercased.
CLI
Install the CLI globally:
npm i -g an-array-of-english-words
Now run words to print all the words to stdout:
words
Use grep to filter by pattern:
words, grep cheese
Use egrep to filter with regular expressions:
words, egrep '^fun' # start with 'fun'
words, egrep 'ification$' # end with 'ification'
words, egrep 'ou?r$' # end in 'or' or 'our'
Use wc to find out how many monkey words there are:
words, grep monkey, wc -l
Ten random ten-letter words (note: on macOS, do brew install coreutils to get
gshuf):
$ words, egrep '^.{10}$', gshuf, head -10