Moby Word Lists

A practical companion for anyone working with text, this volume gathers more than half a million English entries into easy‑to‑use files. It offers everything from a compact set of common acronyms to an extensive collection of over 250 000 hyphenated compounds, giving developers a solid foundation for building spell‑checkers, search indexes, or language tools. The material is organized in plain ASCII files, each line separated by standard CRLF delimiters, so it can be imported directly into most programming environments without extra conversion.

The contents cover a wide range of linguistic resources: a full list of words accepted in official crossword games, frequency‑ranked vocabularies drawn from everyday texts, the Internet and even the King James Bible, plus thousands of personal names, place names, and commonly misspelled terms. With additional specialty lists—such as substrings from popular fiction and the United States Constitution—the collection serves both hobbyists and professionals seeking reliable word data for analysis, games, or software development.