Create a dictionary in Python which can retrieve definitions for user, ask 'did you mean this instead?' if user made a typo while entering the word, and if the word has more than one definition then retrieve them all.

Installing dependencies is the first thing you want to do.

import json
import difflib

The data is in .json format. If you are not aware what JSON is and how it works I recommend referring to this article.

dictionary.json

I have created different files for each step in creating the interactive dictionary, here's the description of what each file does.

dictionary_1.py

Load the data, and just check if data loaded correctly.

dictionary_2.py

Check for non-existing words.

dictionary_3.py

Removing the case-sensitivity from the program. For example 'Rain' and 'rain' will give same output.

dictionary_4-1.py
dictionary_4-2.py

Learn how 'difflib' works in order to suggest a similar word.

dictionary_5.py

Use 'difflib' in our code to retrieve closest match

dictionary_6.py

If the suggested word is what user wants, retrive the meaning of suggested word.

dictionary_7.py

If the word has more than 1 definition, retrive all by iterating.

Note: All files are integrated with comments to help you understand each and every line/command of the code.

Even though the dictionary_7.py is the complete file, I made a new copy of that file namely interactive_dictionary.py to serve as a final file.

python3 interactive_dictionary.py

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