dutch - a list of Dutch words
Contents
Description
/usr/share/dict/dutch is an ASCII-encoded file containing an alphabetic list of words, one per line. The
words are in the official spelling of 2005 and have been certified as such by the TaalUnie.
Files
/etc/dictionaries-common/words This is a link to a /usr/share/dict/<language> file.
/usr/share/dict/words This is linked to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, it exists for software
compatibility.
The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in
English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french,/usr/share/dict/german and /usr/share/dict/danish contain
respectively lists of French, German and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be coded using
the ISO 8859 character set encoding.
History
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.
Name
dutch - a list of Dutch words
See Also
ispell(1), aspell(1)
Linux 4 June 1994 WORDS(5)
