Instead of starting with a built-in dictionary, Word 2013 links you to the Office Store so you can pick a free dictionary or buy one from a collection, including dictionaries in many languages.
To choose and install the dictionary you want, right-click any word and click Define.
Or click Review > Define.
Sign in if you’re prompted to, and look over the choices in the Dictionaries list, and then click Download to install the dictionary you want.
After it downloads, the dictionary will open automatically in Word. From then on it will open whenever you click Define.
Tip: If you’re looking for a different way to say something, right-click any word in your document and click Synonyms. A short list of synonyms will automatically open. Or click Review > Thesaurus to open the built-in thesaurus. See Look up words in the thesaurus for more info about the thesaurus features.
Install another dictionary
Once you’ve downloaded one dictionary, go to the Office Store if you want more.
Click Insert > My Apps.
In the Apps for Office box, click Store.
Pick the dictionary you want, or search for one in the search box. When you find the dictionary you want, click Add or Buy.
Review the privacy information, and then click Trust it.
Follow the steps in Start using an app to begin using your new dictionary.
Start using an app
To start using a new app, such as a dictionary, find and double-click it in the apps list.
Click Insert > My Apps.
Click My Apps to see your list of apps. If your new app isn’t there, click Refresh to update the list.
Double-click the app to start using it.
Create Word Lists from existing text.
If you're looking for a way to improve your writing and you wish to analyze your text and word frequencies, Word List is an application that may come in handy in this regard.
It all comes down to five different steps and the main window is the one that makes the whole task a breeze, mostly because it organizes each step on a separate tab for instant access.
First of all, you are required to choose a file to be analyzed, while step number two presents the first set of options. You're thus allowed to sort words by frequency or alphabetically, with separate entries to include index, frequency and percentage.
Next, you have nothing else to do than to press the “Start” button which gives the green light to the word list creation process.
The next tab is the one that provides access to the results, showing each word appearing in the document you selected, along with frequency and using percentage. You can of course save results as a text document file, with dedicated options to see the data on tabs or with fixed width.
As you can see, Word List is far from being a very complex piece of software, so beginners should not encounter any problem, despite the fact that no help file is included in the package.
Word List relies on a simple interface and a quick word processing engine, so it's not at all a resource hog, while running just fine on all Windows iterations.
Overall, Word List does what it says with a very simple approach and just a few configuration options, being addressed to all types of users.
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Create Word Lists from existing text.
If you're looking for a way to improve your writing and you wish to analyze your text and word frequencies, Word List is an application that may come in handy in this regard.
It all comes down to five different steps and the main window is the one that makes the whole task a breeze, mostly because it organizes each step on a separate tab for instant access.
First of all, you are required to choose a file to be analyzed, while step number two presents the first set of options. You're thus allowed to sort words by frequency or alphabetically, with separate entries to include index, frequency and percentage.
Next, you have nothing else to do than to press the “Start” button which gives the green light to the word list creation process.
The next tab is the one that provides access to the results, showing each word appearing in the document you selected, along with frequency and using percentage. You can of course save results as a text document file, with dedicated options to see the data on tabs or with fixed width.
As you can see, Word List is far from being a very complex piece of software, so beginners should not encounter any problem, despite the fact that no help file is included in the package.
Word List relies on a simple interface and a quick word processing engine, so it's not at all a resource hog, while running just fine on all Windows iterations.
Overall, Word List does what it says with a very simple approach and just a few configuration options, being addressed to all types of users.
Filed under
Word List was reviewed by Bogdan PopaWord List is part of these download collections: Vocabulary Managers
top alternatives FREE
top alternatives PAID
Word List 1
add to watchlistsend us an update- file size:
- 295 KB
- filename:
- WordListSetup.exe
- runs on:
- Windows All
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- Office tools
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I’m wondering where I can find good collections of dictionaries which can be used for dictionary attacks?
I've found some through Google, but I’m interested in hearing about where you get your dictionaries from.
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Nice list collected by Ron Bowes you can find here:
http://www.skullsecurity.org/wiki/index.php/Passwords.
Other list is from InsidePro:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120207113205/http://www.insidepro.com/eng/download.shtml.
An important one that hasn't been added to the list is the crackstation wordlist
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The list contains every wordlist, dictionary, and password database leak that I could find on the internet (and I spent a LOT of time looking). It also contains every word in the Wikipedia databases (pages-articles, retrieved 2010, all languages) as well as lots of books from Project Gutenberg. It also includes the passwords from some low-profile database breaches that were being sold in the underground years ago.
Best thing is, its free, although you can (and should!) make a donation!
Some additional ones to add to those already suggested
![Download Download](https://images.directoryofshareware.com/full/excel_wordlist_english_rusian_business_database_management-110120.gif)
- ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/ - Lists by language, may be an important point depending on the locations of the users..
- http://www.openwall.com/passwords/wordlists/ - The openwall project lists.
- While not strictly a dictionary site (although it does have some) http://sites.google.com/site/reusablesec/Home/presentations-and-papers has some good presentations on improving the performance of password crackers in general and john the ripper in particular
Try the CrackLib dictionaries: https://web.archive.org/web/20161225012801/http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/cracklib-dicts.html
I tested the likelihood of collisions of different hashing functions. To help test, I tried hashing
all 216,553 words in the English language. Start with those 17.7 bits.
then the list of all 2,165,530 English words with one digit after it. (21.0 bits)
then the list of all
21,655,300
English words with two digits after it. (24.4 bits)then the list of all
524,058,260
English words with a possible capital as the first letter, and followed by zero, one, or two digits. (29.0 bits).
With one list of English words you'll cover nearly everyone's password.
Note:XKCD is always relevant
Another good source is here http://blog.g0tmi1k.com/2011/06/dictionaries-wordlists/
snippet:
[Analysis] Dictionaries & Wordlists
In general, it's said that using a GOOD 'dictionary' or 'wordlist' (as far as I know, they're the same!) is 'key'. But what makes them GOOD? Most people will say 'the bigger, the better'; however, this isn't always the case.. (for the record this isn't my opinion on the matter - more on this later).
You'll find lots of words in lots of languages on the download page for the English Wiktionary. enwiktionary-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz contains just page titles, including phrases - it might have underscores instead of spaces though. (we have English definitions of words from many languages).
And of course there's also WordNet.
(sorry but as a newbie I can only include one link)
All the posts so far have great information, but remember you can always generate word lists yourself with a utility like crunch.
If you have an idea of what the password parameters are (for example, has to be 8-10 chars with only letters and numbers, no symbols), you can pipe crunch to most bruteforce programs with the tailored parameters.
This is one that I have found useful over the years:
It includes popular passwords, fuzzing based on attack type and popular user names.
Have you considered instrumenting OpenSSH to log password attempts. Its common to log thousands of attempts every day for an internet connected host. That will give you a list of several thousand common passwords that have some track record of success AND hint at users other than root which are common targets (e.g. nagios, db admins etc). Once you have a list then you can then use cewl to generate many more variations of these basic passwords.
I'd also recommend looking up lists of male/female names: a huge number of passwords are based on name. Again, once you have a basic list using cewl on it will generate many variations.
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I need a database of every single valid word in English. I checked the /usr/share/dict/words
file, it contains less than 100k words. Wikipedia says English has 475k words. Where do I get the complete list (American spelling)?
Also, is there a single website that gives out words for other languages too, including Asian and European ones?
Edit: Forgot to add, I do not need names etc., just valid English words.
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WordNet database might be helpful. I once worked on a Firefox add-on which deals with words and all kinds of simple to complicated associations between them and stuff. Looks like WordNet will be very much useful to you.
Here it is in MySQL format. And this one (web-archived link) uses Wordnet v3.0 data, rather than the older Wordnet 2.0 data.
You can find what you need on infochimps.org.
They have a list of 350,000 simple (ie non-compound) words available for free download.
Regarding other languages, you might want to poke around on Wiktionary. Here is a link to all the database backups - the information isnt organized so likely but if they have a language, you can download the data in SQL format.
I do not see http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ mentioned here, but that is where I would start if I were looking for something like this (and I was, when I stumbled over this question).
If you cannot find what you want there, and what you want is a list of english words, then you should probably spend some extra time describing how to recognize what it is that you want.
There's no such thing as a 'complete' list. Different people have different ways of measuring -- for example, they might include slang, neologisms, multi-word phrases, offensive terms, foreign words, verb conjugations, and so on. Some people have even counted a million words! So you'll have to decide what you want in a word list.
You may check *spell
en-GB dictionary used by Mozilla, OpenOffice, plenty of other software.
You didn't say what you needed this list for. Outlook 2016 data file location windows 10. If something used as a blacklist for password checks is enough cracklib might be good for you. It contains over 1.5M words.