javascript list of english words for a game

Question

I'm making a simple JS game that needs a list of English dictionary words. Will I need to build the list myself, or is it possible to access the system's or browser's spell-check dictionary - or maybe there's another solution?

Answer 1

You can use Aspell English dictionary.
Aspell English dictionary is availabe at: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html.

To dump world list from the Aspell dictionary checkout:

• https://superuser.com/questions/137957/how-to-convert-aspell-dictionary-to-simple-list-of-words
• http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/10619/dump-an-aspell-dictionary-as-a-word-list
• http://aspell.net/man-html/Dumping-the-Contents-of-the-Word-List.html

The command to dump English list of words should look something like:

aspell -d en dump master | aspell -l en expand > words.txt

Answer 2

with node you can install random-words

npm install random-words

import it and you're done:

var randomWords = require('random-words');
console.log(randomWords());

requirebin

Answer 3

Easiest solution that I found is getting a text or JSON file from anywhere(on web) which contains all the English words(not meanings like in dictionary). I got it from this repository, this contains a text file and a JSON file.

You can easily read data from JSON file using javascript or other programming languages.