Jonny-exe / German-Words-Library

German words library in JSON with either 5,000 words or 1,600,000 words

German-Words-Library in JSON

This is a collection of 2 German word lists. One 1.6 million words long. The other 5,000 words long.

Das ist eine Deutsche Wörter Sammlung in JSON Format.

Features

• JSON format
• original spelling including uppercase and lowercase
• original spelling including letters liket ä, ö, ü, ß, ect.
• Two sizes: 1,6M and 5K.
• The 5000 words have been selected randomly
• Both lists are alphabetically sorted

Files

["Abbaumaschinen",
"Abbauorte",
"Abbausituationen",
"Abendwache",
"Abfallens",
"Abfalltasche",
...
"übersäten",
"überzeugend",
"üblicheres"]

Original source

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WithEnglishWeCan/generated-german-words-full-list/master/words.full.list.build.txt
• This has only a 1.6M words file and its in a TXT format.

Example usage in JavaScript

• Raw link (5000 words): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jonny-exe/German-Words-Library/master/German-words-5000-words.json
• Raw link (1.6 M words): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jonny-exe/German-Words-Library/master/German-words-1600000-words.json

var getJSON = function(url, callback) {
  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhr.open('GET', url, true);
  xhr.responseType = 'json';
  xhr.onload = function() {
    var status = xhr.status;
    if (status === 200) {
      callback(null, xhr.response);
    } else {
      callback(status, xhr.response);
    }
  };
  xhr.send();
};

getJSON('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jonny-exe/German-Words-Library/master/German-words-5000-words.json',
    function(err, data) {  
      if (err !== null) {
        alert('Something went wrong: ' + err);
      } else {
        // Data is the JS array
      }
    }
  );

Enjoy

• Fork
• or use directly from Github (e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jonny-exe/German-Words-Library/master/German-words-5000-words.json)
• and if you like it or use it, please give me a ⭐ on Github