Linking MS dictionary as data into Excel

[Yabbadoo]

I'm British. I've sourced some word lists, unfortunately they are US
English, with US spellings - not helpful with my end-use. It occurred to
me, the needed database already exists ...

PC already has an English dictionary (part of MSOffice). Is it possible to
import this as a wordlist into Excel?

Object of the exercise - to "query" the dictionary to return words which
match input criteria such as example -
G?GG?? (the length of word, 6 characters, ? a single wild-card) ?
The return to be all 6-letter words matching - gaggle, gagged gagger giggled
etc ... this an example, the query could be as few as 3 and as many as
sixteen letters.

There's a web-site which already does this on-line, but the reponse time is
slow. I'd like to create my own in Excel, if possible. Help, please?

 

[Tom Ogilvy]

Not sure you will be able to do that with the dictionary, but not something
I have tried.

If you want to go back to your original, this guy is posting from a UK url,
so perhaps he spells color as colour <g>.

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/

 

[Yabbadoo]

As ever, you are most helpful, and correct. The list "mword.tar.tar" appears
to originate from Sheffield Universtity. I know exactly where Sheffield
is - in Yorkshire, UK's largest county (I'm a Yorkshireman).
Have downloaded. It's said to be a ZIP file - Lord knows how I'm going to
get 387,000 words into Excel as a database! (ZIP, with a .tar.tar double
extension?? That'll be a good test of Winzip!! Manyana, it's too late now
(near midnight).
Thanks again, Tom. Sincerely, Len.