How to check whether given string is a word

Question

Hello I am developing a word game where i want to check the user input as valid word or not please suggest the way i can check the given string in android.

Eg . Str

Answer 1

zeitue said:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;

class WordChecker {
    public static boolean check_for_word(String word) {
        // System.out.println(word);
        try {
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(
                "/usr/share/dict/american-english"));
            String str;
            while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
                if (str.indexOf(word) != -1) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
            in.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
        }

        return false;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(check_for_word("hello"));
    }
}

but this will only work on linux. if you want this same thing on a mac change the path from

/usr/share/dict/american-english

to

/usr/share/dict/web2

I have not tried this on windows but if someone knows comment below