If the sort order of the wordlist is changed (as #1040126 suggests), then that would resolve this bug.
There would still be a question of whether the look tool ought to require the wordlist to be sorted. Other implementations of look(1) do (in absence of explicit filename), so my feeling is that providers of /usr/share/dict/words should ensure that the file is sorted with -d -f. That being the case, my feeling is that look(1) should indeed make use of that sort order: i.e. I feel that the benefit of the reduced number of reads should outweigh the chance of a misconfigured system (though see next para). However, there is a question of how bsdextrautils should allow for the fact that the existing version of scowl does supply an inappropriately ordered wordlist: perhaps bsdextrautils should Conflict with existing versions, or perhaps it should for now switch to not requiring sortedness, and later go back to requiring orderedness and adding a Conflicts on existing scowl versions. pjrm.
