Moby Project - Language

Moby Language II contains wordlists of five languages - French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish:

Language Words Size (in bytes)
French 138,257 1,524,757
German 159,809 2,055,986
Italian 60,453 561,981
Japanese 115,523 934,783
Spanish 86,059 850,523
Total 560,101 5,928,030

However, some of the lists are contaminated, for example the Japanese list contains English words such as abnormal and non-words such as abcdefgh and m,./.

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