WordList
Details and Options
- The following types are supported:
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"CommonWords" common words (default)"KnownWords" known dictionary wordspos common words that can be a given part of speech{"type",pos} inflected, known, etc. words filtered by part of speech"Stopwords" words like "the" that are often considered insignificant
- Core parts of speech are: "Noun", "Verb", "Adjective", "Adverb", "Preposition", "Conjunction", "Pronoun", "Determiner", and "Interjection".
- WordList supports the following options:
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Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (1)
Get a list of common English language words:
List common English language nouns:
Get the list of stop words for a given language:
Scope (1)
In WordList[type], type may correspond to a collection of words or a part of speech:
Options (2)
Language (1)
Get a list of all available Spanish language words:
Language specifications can be strings, or "Language" entities:
IncludeInflections (1)
With IncludeInflections->True , inflected forms will be included in results:
With IncludeInflections->False , only uninflected words will be returned:
Applications (2)
Generate a list of common English words:
Find the most frequent characters at the beginning of words:
Visualize the relative frequencies in a word cloud:
Compare to the most frequent characters globally:
Generate lists of common words for a set of languages:
Compute the length of each of these words:
Compare the distribution of numbers of characters per word for each language by overlapping histograms of relative frequencies:
Combine the histograms to show total counts of lengths for all languages together:
Possible Issues (2)
Part-of-speech definitions may not be available for all language settings:
Not all languages have available word lists:
See Also
WordDefinition PartOfSpeech DictionaryWordQ RandomWord WordData SpellingCorrectionList DeleteStopwords WordFrequencyData TextWords StringSplit
Function Repository: Anagrams
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History
Text
Wolfram Research (2015), WordList, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordList.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2015. "WordList." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordList.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2015). WordList. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordList.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_wordlist, author="Wolfram Research", title="{WordList}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordList.html}", note=[Accessed: 24-November-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_wordlist, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={WordList}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/WordList.html}, note=[Accessed: 24-November-2025]}