Abstract: This paper applies the radix sort to the sorting of english words,according to the characteristics of the sorting in english dictionary and the principle of radix sort is found.

• 摘 要 :本文针对英语字典中单词排列的特点和基数排序的思想，将基数排序应用于英语单词排序中，得到了单词的链式基数排序法。