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Words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used by Vim and spell-checking programs. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words. If the words file is missing, you might encounter the following error message (when using Vim).

A simple way to fix the issue (on Debian-series of Linux distributions) is to install the wamerican package.

wajig install wamerican