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Question1: Get the list of pairs of the form {language,number of words in dictionary}. Call this list langlength

What I did was this:

langlength = 
  {{Arabic, Length[DictionaryLookup[{"Arabic", All}]]}, 
   {BrazilianPortuguese, Length[DictionaryLookup[{"BrazilianPortuguese", All}]]}, 
   {Breton, Length[DictionaryLookup[{"Breton", All}]]},......}

And so on. What's a shorter way of doing this?

Question2: Look at all the words contained in all the dictionaries. What are the ones of maximum length?

I had:

Max[StringLength[lang]]

But that's not working and not sure what's missing.

Please help me with either or both questions.

I set lang = DictionaryLookup[All]

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    $\begingroup$ Is it homework? $\endgroup$
    – Dr. belisarius
    Oct 12, 2013 at 3:42
  • $\begingroup$ What did you use for lang? $\endgroup$
    – rm -rf ♦
    Oct 12, 2013 at 4:10
  • $\begingroup$ I have the first question, I just need the second question now. I need to find a way to show the longest word of each language. So if I know the longest word in English was 23, I have to find a way to see what THAT word is. $\endgroup$
    – Sam
    Oct 12, 2013 at 16:38

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This could be automated:

languages = DictionaryLookup[All];
leng = Length /@ (DictionaryLookup[{#, All}] & /@ languages)

The longest words could be extracted:

longw = 
  Last /@ (SortBy[#, StringLength[#] &] & /@ (DictionaryLookup[{#, All}] & /@ languages))

(noting that there may be more than one word of equal maximal length). You can adapt to sut your goal, e.g tabulate language and dictionary length:

Thread[{languages, leng}] // TableForm
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  • $\begingroup$ I have the max length of each language, I just need a way to find what words they are exactly. $\endgroup$
    – Sam
    Oct 12, 2013 at 16:38
  • $\begingroup$ For the second question, I need to find a way to show the longest word of each language. So for example, if I know the longest word in English was 23, I have to find a way to see what that 23 letter word is. $\endgroup$
    – Sam
    Oct 12, 2013 at 16:40
  • $\begingroup$ @Sam longw in the code above is a list of the longest words. You could tabulate language, longest word and length as follows: Thread[{languages,longw,StringLength/@longw}]//TableForm $\endgroup$
    – ubpdqn
    Oct 13, 2013 at 3:43

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