Word Databases

#1 Http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/german.html

This site has a free english-german and german-english translation dictionary.

I don't have official documentation on the wordlist format, but...

I opened the word list in VIM and found that ASCII words were separated by @^@^@^...

This format is not ideal, but I don't think it would be very hard to parse into something more easily useable. Good luck.

#2 Are you looking for a definitive wordlist for purposes of a word game?

You might want to go to www.improving.org/paulp/scrabble/ and pick up item number 9 for an official word list. This is for the American word list. The rest of the world uses the SOWPODS wordlist which you can probably google.

If you are looking for lexicon storing formats, there's a free one used to adjudicate Scrabble Tourney's called "look". There's also a windows based one called LexPert. There's the granddaddy format used by "ENABLE".

You can probably find these listed on the Scrabble FAQ

I believe there's also a programming interest group (on Yahoo Groups) for word-based anagramming software development, though it's been years since I last visited. Key people to look/google for in this field are John Chew and James Cherry.

#3 Yes I am looking for a wordlist for a word game. Links and names you geve me was very useful.

Thanks for your help,

#4 This will be most helpful in my attempt at writing a new specification for the design of network code.