---
name: "dutch"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "wdutch"
version: "1:2.20.19+1-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/dutch"
---

# dutch(5)

a list of Dutch words

## NAME

dutch - a list of Dutch words

## DESCRIPTION

*/usr/share/dict/dutch* is an ASCII-encoded file containing an alphabetic list of words, one per line. The words are in the official spelling of 2005 and have been certified as such by the TaalUnie.

## AUTHOR

This word list as been created by the OpenTaal project: http://www.opentaal.org/

## 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, /usr/share/dict/german* and */usr/share/dict/danish* contain respectively lists of French, German and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859 character set encoding.

## HISTORY

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

## SEE ALSO

[**ispell**(1)](/ispell/1.md), [**aspell**(1)](/aspell/1.md)