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NAME

       spanish - a list of spanish words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/spanish  is  an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic
       list of words, one per line.

AUTHOR

       Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.

FILES

       /etc/dictionaries-common/words    This    is    a     link     to     a
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.

       /usr/share/dict/words This is linked to /etc/dictionaries-common/words,
       it exists for software compatibility.

       The  directory  /usr/share/dict  can  contain  word  lists   for   many
       languages,    with   name   of   the   language   in   English,   e.g.,
       /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain  respectively
       lists  of  French and Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be
       coded using the ISO 8859 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1).

History

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any  number
       of sources.