How can I access the Chrome spellcheck dictionary?

Question

Obviously, Chrome has a built-in dictionary that it uses to check spelling. Is there an API or some way to access this dictionary? I'm not interested in spellchecking, but in actual access to the dictionary. For example. I would like to write a dictionary autocomplete extension for chrome? a dictionary autofill extension that uses the Chrome dictionary instead of saving my own. Of particular interest to me would be funciton like getWordsThatStartWith(text) .

Answer 1

Dictionaries are available for download from http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/deps/third_party/hunspell_dictionaries/ . (Files with the .dic extension.)

Answer 2

I am not sure if this is related to your request. Another developer appears who created an extension for searching words, not sure if the api that he founded used internal spelling or not ... my assumption would be that the api would simply return google query results using a pre-search function like "define: example", for example, query / word. Here is a link to the article, although it is quite outdated.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/12/on-googles-unofficial-dictionary-api.html