Newbie: Large dictionaries

[Erik Max Francis]

Mikael Olofsson wrote:

> Well, there are approximately 300 million combinations of 6 letters
> from an alphabet of size 26. I wouldn't be surprized if there actually
> are 4 million unique words of length 6 in some language.

That tells you very little, because only a tiny proportion of those
three hundred million letter combinations represent reasonable
combinations of sounds that are legal in a given language, much less
actual words in that language.

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