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by Mr_Minderbinder 38 days ago
> I mean honestly, how large is an English dictionary? 100 KiB?

If it contains less than 50,000 words, perhaps, but most standard print dictionaries contain ~500,000 entries. The size of /usr/share/dict/words on my system is 954 KiB and the small version of the cracklib dictionary is 481 KiB.