Dictionary in Jazzy

I. Introduction

Jazzy is the Java implementation of ASpell. The dictionary of Jazzy includes general English and was tested in CSpell. It is briefly described below.

• Jazzy Web site
• Files from Jazzy
  • center.dic
  • centre.dic
  • color.dic
  • colour.dic
  • labeled.dic
  • labelled.dic
  • ise.dic
  • yse.dic
  • ize.dic
  • yze.dic

II. Format

III. Algorithm

• Uses Jazzy SpellDictionary and SpellDictionaryHashMap
  • Jazzy converts all words to Metaphone codes and use the code as key, all words with same code are stored as values
  • To find a word in the dictionary:
    • convert word to code
    • use code as key to find values (all words with same Metaphone code)
    • find the word from values
  • Use code as key allows find all possible words with matching phonetic code
  • Allows adding words from a file