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  • It's called a dictionary; several good ones, both Oxfords and Websters, are available at your local bookstore. However, it may take you a while to type in all 300,000 words from a good one. Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 8:29
  • "I don't want to give them ids serially according to alphabetical order" ― why? Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 8:30
  • I see this as a proposed solution for an unknow problem. Please provide some background on the actual business problem being addressed, as something like the LZW encryption algorithm may be much better suited to it than this trial balloon. Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 8:35
  • @n.m. because the vocabulary is growing, for instance, in v1.0, my vocabulary is "apple, orange, strawberry", if I give them id serially, it may have a mapping like "apple 1, orange 2, strawberry 3", and in v2.0, I add a lemon, if I assign ids alphabetically, it should be "apple 1, lemon 2, orange 3, strawberry 4", but the ids are already taken. Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 8:57
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    So assign the numbers in chronological order. Commented Mar 18, 2013 at 8:59