Re: downloading a russian dictionary and getting matches with the arbitrary underpattern, a utility for crosswords

[aitap]

Where do I find a link to download a modern russian dictionary like the one that google provides for english?

Do you mean a glossary (Ru-Ru) or a translation dictionary (En-Ru)? For the former, check out the resources at http://gramota.ru. (I'm afraid there might be no downloads, but it's a start.) For the latter, I'm not sure there are legally redistributable dictionaries except mueller7-dict, which is an English → Russian dictionary.

[Aldebaran]

check out the resources at http://gramota.ru.

I always go down the rabbit hole and never come back with a word list, but this was at least a very interesting rabbit hole, which was on the far end of the tabs: link to games resources.

I'm so blown away by this as a resource, and it would be a great way to check a given word, but I'm yet to find what I need to start playing crosswords where I can populate an array with the entire language. I'm amazed at how small that is for english.

This is what you get as output when you input пр***. It's 76 k, so don't say I didn't warn you.

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[aitap]

never come back with a word list

The dictionaries on the Net page links to the new frequency-based dictionary, offering a tab-separated version, which contains 52138 rows. The Tower of Babel project also offers some dictionaries in self-extracting 7-zip archives containing some kind of binary format. (dBase? I could see CP-866-encoded text in some of those files.) Let me know if you need help with translating any of that.

[Aldebaran]

Let me know if you need help with translating any of that.

I feel like we're getting somewhere now. I can see something I can use, but it's column one of a database. How do we get the words out of there and into a garden variety perl array without creating a sea of mojibake?