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iOS

Posted by Tom Coomer
Tom Coomer
1,331 Points

Check if string is in English dictionary xcode

I would like to click a button and check if a string is in the English dictionary. If it is then display an NSLog to say.

1 Answer

Ben Jakuben
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Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

For this you would need to either include a full English dictionary in your app and check against that, or find a web-based dictionary. I would recommend just querying the web.

Wiktionary has an API that looks pretty useful. Your button could make a request to this API to check for the word. The Blog Reader and Self-Destructing Message App projects should help you understand how to use an API over the web if that is unfamiliar to you.

Tom Coomer
Tom Coomer
1,331 Points

Thanks so much. That's helped a lot.