Just a quick idea -- getting all possible words from English Wikipedia. (Including 'talk' pages.)
That will contain obscure provincial handball sportsmen, etc.
The resulting size of list of words is 13,029,545, which is of course orders of magnitude smaller that a list of all possible letters combinations. Would be easy for hashcat password cracker.
The same can be done for Russian Wikipedia, but rules of transliterations are to apply.
This can help with some hard Russian names like 'щербицкий':
shcherbickij shcherbickiy shcherbiczkij shcherbiczkiy shcherbitskij shcherbitskiy shcherbitckij shcherbitckiy shchyerbickij shchyerbickiy shchyerbiczkij shchyerbiczkiy shchyerbitskij shchyerbitskiy shchyerbitckij shchyerbitckiy shherbickij shherbickiy shherbiczkij shherbiczkiy shherbitskij shherbitskiy shherbitckij shherbitckiy shhyerbickij shhyerbickiy shhyerbiczkij shhyerbiczkiy shhyerbitskij shhyerbitskiy shhyerbitckij shhyerbitckiy
Also, it's not uncommon to type password as a Russian word, but keyboard switched to Latin. Like, 'пароль' -> 'gfhjkm'.
Also, list of Ukrainian words from Ukrainian Wikipedia, transliterated.
Let's test with a hard 'запоріжжя' word:
zaporizhzhya zaporizhzhia zaporizhzhja zaporizhzha zaporizhshya zaporizhshia zaporizhshja zaporizhsha zaporizhjya zaporizhjia zaporizhjja zaporizhja zaporizhzjya zaporizhzjia zaporizhzjja zaporizhzja zaporishzhya zaporishzhia zaporishzhja zaporishzha zaporishshya zaporishshia zaporishshja zaporishsha zaporishjya zaporishjia zaporishjja zaporishja zaporishzjya zaporishzjia zaporishzjja zaporishzja zaporijzhya zaporijzhia zaporijzhja zaporijzha zaporijshya zaporijshia zaporijshja zaporijsha zaporijjya zaporijjia zaporijjja zaporijja zaporijzjya zaporijzjia zaporijzjja zaporijzja zaporizjzhya zaporizjzhia zaporizjzhja zaporizjzha zaporizjshya zaporizjshia zaporizjshja zaporizjsha zaporizjjya zaporizjjia zaporizjjja zaporizjja zaporizjzjya zaporizjzjia zaporizjzjja zaporizjzja saporizhzhya saporizhzhia saporizhzhja saporizhzha saporizhshya saporizhshia saporizhshja saporizhsha saporizhjya saporizhjia saporizhjja saporizhja saporizhzjya saporizhzjia saporizhzjja saporizhzja saporishzhya saporishzhia saporishzhja saporishzha saporishshya saporishshia saporishshja saporishsha saporishjya saporishjia saporishjja saporishja saporishzjya saporishzjia saporishzjja saporishzja saporijzhya saporijzhia saporijzhja saporijzha saporijshya saporijshia saporijshja saporijsha saporijjya saporijjia saporijjja saporijja saporijzjya saporijzjia saporijzjja saporijzja saporizjzhya saporizjzhia saporizjzhja saporizjzha saporizjshya saporizjshia saporizjshja saporizjsha saporizjjya saporizjjia saporizjjja saporizjja saporizjzjya saporizjzjia saporizjzjja saporizjzja
Also, during coding of the transliteration utility, I came up with an interesting case of itertools usage in Python.
This is how I solve transliteration problem:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import itertools, string, sys
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian
translit_RU={'а': ['a'],
'б': ['b'],
'в': ['v'],
'г': ['g'],
'д': ['d'],
'е': ['e','ye'],
'ё': ['jo','yo','ye'],
'ж': ['zh'],
'з': ['z'],
'и': ['i'],
'й': ['j','y'],
'к': ['k'],
'л': ['l'],
'м': ['m'],
'н': ['n'],
'о': ['o'],
'п': ['p'],
'р': ['r'],
'с': ['s'],
'т': ['t'],
'у': ['u'],
'ф': ['f'],
'х': ['x','h','kh','ch'],
'ц': ['c','cz','ts','tc'],
'ч': ['ch'],
'ш': ['sh'],
'щ': ['shch','shh'],
'ъ': ['\'','ie'],
'ы': ['y','ui'],
'ь': ['\'', ''],
'э': ['eh','e'],
'ю': ['yu','ju','iu'],
'я': ['ya','ja','ia']}
l="закоренелый"
tmp=[translit_RU[c] for c in l]
print (tmp)
for q in itertools.product(*tmp):
print ("".join(q))
And the result:
[['z'], ['a'], ['k'], ['o'], ['r'], ['e', 'ye'], ['n'], ['e', 'ye'], ['l'], ['y', 'ui'], ['j', 'y']] zakorenelyj zakorenelyy zakoreneluij zakoreneluiy zakorenyelyj zakorenyelyy zakorenyeluij zakorenyeluiy zakoryenelyj zakoryenelyy zakoryeneluij zakoryeneluiy zakoryenyelyj zakoryenyelyy zakoryenyeluij zakoryenyeluiy
Can you do shorter? Maybe yes, but eventually you'll reinvent/rewrite this itertools.product() function.
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