---
name: "spanish"
section: "5"
platform: "linux"
package: "wspanish"
version: "1.0.30"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/spanish"
---

# spanish(5)

a list of spanish words

## 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)](/ispell/1.md).

## History

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