---
name: "dictfmt_index2word"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "dictd"
version: "1.13.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dictfmt_index2word"
---

# dictfmt\_index2word(1)

Creates a .word index file from a DICTD database .index file

## NAME

dictfmt\_index2word - Creates a .word index file from a  **DICTD** database .index file

## SYNOPSIS

**dictfmt\_index2word** *\[OPTIONS\]* **\[index\_file\]**

## DESCRIPTION

**dictfmt\_index2word** creates a word index file on stdout for the index file given on stdin or the command line.  A word index file indexes each subword from the multi-word headwords of the .index file, to the underlying .dict file. A word index file is usually named \<basename\>.word, but this is not mandatory as long as the proper name is used in the **dictd** configuration file.

## OPTIONS

- **--help**

  displays a usage message and exits

- **--locale** *locale*

  use locale for sorting the .word file. If this option is omitted, the  default locale "C" is used.

- **index\_file**

  the .index file to be converted.

## AUTHOR

**dictfmt\_index2word** was written by Aleksey Cheusov \<vle@gmx.net\>.\
 This manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard \<hilliard@debian.org\>.

## SEE ALSO

[**dictd**(8)](/dictd/8.md), [**dictfmt**(1)](/dictfmt/1.md), [**dictfmt\_index2suffix**(1)](/dictfmt_index2suffix/1.md)