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uppercase and lowercase
Authored by: doctype on Thu, Feb 28 2008 at 9:53AM PST

As grep is case-sensitive, I'd suggest to add the -i option (ignore case distinctions):

echo `grep -w -i $text /usr/share/dict/words`