/usr/share/dict/french is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
line.
FILES
/etc/alternatives/dictionary is a symbolic link to a
/usr/share/dict/<language> file.
/usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to
/etc/alternatives/dictionary , and is the name by which other software should refer to the
system word list.
See
update-alternatives (8) for more information.
The directory
/usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language
in English, e.g.,
/usr/share/dict/american-english and
/usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of English and Danish words if they exist.
Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.
SEE ALSO
ispell(1) , update-alternatives (8), and the
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard .
HISTORY
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
of sources.
The system word list used to be
/usr/dict/words . For compatibility, software should check that location if
/usr/share/dict/words does not exist.
AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.
