lexgo 1.1

A lexicon search tool for language teachers and students. Explore word patterns in any language.

lexgo

A lexicon search tool for language teachers and students. Explore word patterns in any language.

Crack WORDLE in minutes using lexgo for hints. It's also great for cracking crossword puzzles. You can ask lexgo to find example words of specific lengths and with specific letters.

Installation

Install this tool using pip:

pip install lexgo

Python Package Index: https://pypi.org/project/lexgo/

Usage

For help, run:

lexgo --help

You can also use:

python -m lexgo --help

Development

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd lexgo
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

python -m pytest

Acknowledgements

The English lexicon used was taken from the english-words repo. Thanks to the esteemed programer @dwyl for his excelent work.

The Spanish lexicon used was taken from the diccionario-español.txt repo. Gracias al estimado programador @JorgeDuenasLerin por su trabajo excelente.

The French lexicon used was taken from the French-Dictionary repo. Merci au programmeur estimé @hbenbel pour son excellent travail.

The Portuguese lexicon used was taken from the words-pt repo. Obrigado ao estimado programador @jfoclpf por seu excelente trabalho.

The German lexicon used was taken from the wortliste repo. Vielen Dank an den geschätzten Programmierer @davidak für seine hervorragende Arbeit.

The python package chardet and the command line tool iconv were very helpful in detecting and converting encondings.