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How do I use DictionaryLookup to exclude words with certain phrases?

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Posted 8 years ago
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I'm looking to use DictionaryLookup to search the English dictionary for words that don't contain certain strings. For example, I want to exclude "ar" and "h" from my search, and have "far" and "hat" not appear. (I'm going to have a long list of strings, so my search result will be limited down significantly.)

Finally, I'm looking to sort these results by word length. Any help getting started doing this is much appreciated!
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Posted 8 years ago

I just got it! Thanks, though!

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Try something like:

tmp = DictionaryLookup[];
tmp // Length
tmp = Select[tmp, StringFreeQ[#, "ar"] &];
tmp // Length
tmp = Select[tmp, StringFreeQ[#, "h"] &];
tmp // Length
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