Words (Unix)

words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs.

The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.

On Debian and Ubuntu, the file is provided by the  package, or its provider packages, , etc. On Fedora and Arch Linux, the  file is provided by the  package. The package is sourced from data from the Moby Project, a public domain compilation of words.