What is the difference between words.txt, words2.txt, and words3.txt? about english-words HOT 7 CLOSED

Same question. Is words3 just the latest version?

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words3 seem to contain the same words multiple times just some with a dot in the end and things like that. For clean words I'd say only use words.txt

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@chrisiaut words.txt is good enough. If you like only alpha words see words_alpha.txt

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@spookiecookie thanks for helping clarify. 👍
would be really good to capture this in the README so that other people are aware. 😉

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I would remove everything except words_alpha.txt and name words_alpha.txt to words.txt. So the users go straight to the point. What do you think?

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See #11 pull request: moved all from words2.txt, words3.txt to words.txt and removed duplicates then sorted. Removed words2.txt, words3.txt.
What you want is:

• words.txt contains all words.
• words_alpha.txt contains only [[:alpha]] words. If you want a quick solution choose this.

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This has now been clarified in the readme so closing the issue. thanks.

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