>Evan,
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>>Thanks Simplicio, but I don't want a regular expression... that would be more for telling me how many numbers or special characters in a password. What I would really like is a class that tells me if a password is a word from the dictionary.
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>You could try using Calvin's Dictionary

Too bad that words are in the DLL and not a database. I've found some gigantic open source text files of english dictionary words and proper names. I think what I will do is copy this into a database and use that.