Ogden words by length.
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There's this minimal English vocab list out there
called "Ogden's English", or something. You can
look it up. Anyways, it's like less than 900
words, just the important ones.
(In their opinion, at least. Like, it's got
"political" as important enough, but not
"pancake"? Whatever, dude. I disagree.)
Anyways, it's a good enough list to use for word
games and toys and such, if your computering hobby
has you doing stuff like that. This file has all
the words sorted out by length. And so you can
use a program like below to choose a random 3
letter word for example. You save this very file
you are reading to "ogden-sorted-length.txt" and
run the program below.
(with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect "ogden-sorted-length.txt")
(goto-char (point-min))
(when (search-forward (concat "3" "-letter words") nil t)
(forward-word)
(forward-word (+ 1 (random (thing-at-point 'number))))
(thing-at-point 'word)))
1-letter words
2
I
a
2-letter words
16
as
at
be
by
do
go
he
if
in
no
of
on
or
so
to
up
3-letter words
90
act
air
all
and
ant
any
arm
art
bad
bag
bed
bee
bit
box
boy
but
cat
cow
cry
cup
cut
day
dog
dry
ear
egg
end
eye
far
fat
fly
for
get
gun
hat
how
ice
ill
ink
key
law
leg
let
lip
low
man
map
may
net
new
not
now
nut
off
oil
old
out
pen
pig
pin
pot
put
rat
ray
red
rod
rub
run
sad
say
sea
see
sex
sky
son
sun
tax
the
tin
toe
top
use
war
wax
way
wet
who
why
yes
you
4-letter words
243
able
acid
arch
army
baby
back
ball
band
base
bath
bell
bent
bird
bite
blow
blue
boat
body
bone
book
boot
bulb
burn
cake
card
care
cart
chin
coal
coat
cold
comb
come
cook
copy
cord
cork
dark
dead
dear
debt
deep
door
down
drop
dust
east
edge
even
ever
face
fact
fall
farm
fear
fire
fish
flag
flat
fold
food
foot
fork
form
fowl
free
from
full
girl
give
goat
gold
good
gray
grey
grip
hair
hand
hard
hate
have
head
heat
help
here
high
hole
hook
hope
horn
hour
idea
iron
join
jump
keep
kick
kind
kiss
knee
knot
land
last
late
lead
leaf
left
lift
like
line
list
lock
long
look
loss
loud
love
make
male
mark
mass
meal
meat
milk
mind
mine
mist
moon
move
much
nail
name
near
neck
need
news
nose
note
only
open
oven
over
page
pain
part
past
pipe
play
plow
poor
pull
pump
push
rail
rain
rate
rest
rice
ring
road
roll
roof
room
root
rule
safe
sail
salt
same
sand
seat
seed
seem
self
send
ship
shoe
shut
side
sign
silk
size
skin
slip
slow
snow
soap
sock
soft
some
song
sort
soup
star
stem
step
stop
such
swim
tail
take
talk
tall
test
than
that
then
thin
this
till
time
town
tray
tree
true
turn
unit
very
view
walk
wall
warm
wash
wave
week
well
west
when
whip
wide
will
wind
wine
wing
wire
wise
with
wood
wool
word
work
worm
year
5-letter words
193
about
after
again
among
angle
angry
apple
awake
basin
berry
birth
black
blade
blood
board
brain
brake
brass
bread
brick
brown
brush
burst
cause
chain
chalk
cheap
chest
chief
clean
clear
clock
cloth
cloud
color
cough
cover
crack
crime
cruel
crush
curve
death
dirty
doubt
drain
dress
drink
early
earth
equal
error
event
every
false
field
fight
first
fixed
flame
floor
force
frame
front
fruit
glass
glove
grain
grass
great
green
group
guide
happy
heart
horse
house
humor
jelly
jewel
judge
knife
laugh
level
light
limit
linen
loose
match
metal
mixed
money
month
mouth
music
nerve
night
noise
north
offer
order
other
owner
paint
paper
paste
peace
place
plane
plant
plate
point
power
price
print
prose
quick
quiet
quite
range
ready
right
river
rough
round
scale
screw
sense
shade
shake
shame
sharp
sheep
shelf
shirt
shock
short
skirt
sleep
slope
small
smash
smell
smile
smoke
snake
solid
sound
south
space
spade
spoon
stage
stamp
start
steam
steel
stick
stiff
still
stone
store
story
sugar
sweet
table
taste
there
thick
thing
thumb
tight
tired
tooth
touch
trade
train
trick
twist
under
value
verse
voice
waste
watch
water
wheel
where
while
white
woman
wound
young
6-letter words
126
across
almost
amount
animal
answer
attack
basket
before
belief
bitter
bottle
branch
breath
bridge
bright
broken
bucket
butter
button
camera
canvas
chance
change
cheese
church
circle
collar
common
copper
cotton
credit
damage
danger
degree
design
desire
detail
drawer
effect
engine
enough
expert
family
father
feeble
female
finger
flight
flower
friend
future
garden
growth
hammer
harbor
hollow
insect
island
kettle
letter
liquid
little
living
market
memory
middle
minute
monkey
mother
motion
muscle
narrow
nation
needle
normal
number
office
orange
parcel
pencil
person
please
plough
pocket
poison
polish
porter
potato
powder
prison
profit
public
reason
record
regret
reward
rhythm
school
second
secret
silver
simple
sister
smooth
sneeze
sponge
spring
square
sticky
stitch
street
strong
sudden
summer
system
theory
though
thread
throat
ticket
tongue
vessel
weight
window
winter
yellow
7-letter words
80
account
against
attempt
balance
because
between
boiling
brother
certain
comfort
company
complex
control
country
current
curtain
cushion
disease
disgust
driving
elastic
example
feather
feeling
fertile
fiction
foolish
forward
general
hanging
harmony
healthy
hearing
history
impulse
journey
leather
library
machine
manager
married
measure
medical
meeting
morning
natural
opinion
payment
picture
present
private
process
produce
protest
purpose
quality
reading
receipt
regular
request
respect
science
serious
servant
society
special
station
stomach
strange
stretch
support
thought
through
thunder
trouble
violent
waiting
weather
whistle
writing
8-letter words
50
addition
approval
argument
behavior
building
business
carriage
chemical
complete
daughter
decision
delicate
distance
division
electric
exchange
frequent
hospital
increase
industry
interest
language
learning
material
military
mountain
opposite
ornament
parallel
physical
pleasure
position
possible
probable
property
question
reaction
relation
religion
scissors
separate
stocking
straight
surprise
teaching
tendency
together
tomorrow
trousers
umbrella
9-letter words
32
agreement
amusement
apparatus
attention
authority
automatic
beautiful
committee
condition
conscious
dependent
different
digestion
direction
discovery
education
existence
expansion
important
insurance
invention
knowledge
necessary
operation
political
secretary
selection
statement
structure
substance
transport
yesterday
10-letter words
10
adjustment
attraction
comparison
connection
discussion
experience
government
instrument
punishment
suggestion
11-letter words
5
competition
destruction
development
observation
responsible
12-letter words
2
distribution
organization
13-letter words
1
advertisement
14-letter words
1
representative
