Is there a way to match a string to natural language word?

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I am toying with making a word game and was looking into some of the mechanics. I have run into a major roadblock though. I can't find a way to match the word the player defines to an English word. Is there an API that I can query? I saw something on the asset store, but I am trying to keep everything free for this game. Any suggestions will help. The game will be HTML based so I could use a web API.

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Answer by 1337GameDev · Apr 14, 2013 at 09:29 PM

The only way I could see doing this is with a dictionary. Just have a dictionary to match check if an input word is in it. You can find a dictionary online, and just do a search for if it contains the word in question. A dictionary, as text is about 3mb I believe in size for all words.

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Mystic_nynja · Apr 15, 2013 at 02:27 AM 0

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That's what I figured. Thanks for helping out!

Is there a way to match a string to natural language word?

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