English Word Checker

[keen laurel]

Hello! I would like to write a program that is able to efficiently determine whether a string is contained in the english dictionary. I am against using a dictionary file as the program will need to reinitialize a set every time it is run (unless that isnt too significant of a computational task?), and have tried and failed to use options such as reading from dictionary.com and wordnet. Can someone help me figure out a way to achieve this?

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[turbid sage]

One way to achieve this is by using a data structure called a trie, which is a tree-like data structure that is often used for efficient string searching. In a trie, each node represents a prefix or a complete word, and the edges represent the characters that can follow the prefix or the word.
To build a trie for an English dictionary, you would start with an empty root node and add each word in the dictionary to the trie, one character at a time. For example, to add the word "cat" to the trie, you would start at the root node, add a child node for the letter "c", add a child node for the letter "a" under the "c" node, and finally add a child node for the letter "t" under the "a" node.
Once the trie is built, you can efficiently determine whether a string is contained in the English dictionary by traversing the trie starting from the root node and following the edges corresponding to each character in the string. If you reach a node that represents the end of a word, then the string is in the dictionary. Otherwise, the string is not in the dictionary.
The advantage of using a trie over a set or a dictionary file is that the trie can be efficiently built and searched, and it can handle large dictionaries with minimal memory usage. Additionally, the trie can be persisted to disk or memory for later use, reducing the need to rebuild the trie every time the program is run.