writing a code involving struct

I have a file with a list of words, and what I want to do is to keep the words in such an arrangement where it will turn out like this letters='abcdefghijklmn......xyz'
wordbank.a=airplane
aerosol
wordbank.b=bulky
big
best
wordbank.c=..... ....
until
wordbank.z=zebra ....
....
....
the whole code will be placed in a while loop, where every line in the word list will be processed and stored in the above arrangement. However I am not sure what is the right way of writing the code to make this happen.
Can somebody assist me with this?Thank you.

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This page doesn't allow any space, therefore please know that the words are supposed to be kept in a [row,1] matrix

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For fun, just take all the text from TMW website and sort them according to the first letter and then put them into a word bank.
words=urlread('http://www.mathworks.com');
words=regexp(words,'[A-Za-z]*','match');
for letter='a':'z'
Wordbank.(letter)=words(strncmpi(words,letter,1));
end

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'[A-Za-z]+'
would be a better search pattern: with the '*' it would also match the empty string, which occurs in _every_ line (including empty lines)
It won't result in empty string as it searches only for 'A' to 'Z' and 'a' to 'z'. I ran any(cellfun('isempty',words)) and it didn't find any. However, using '+' is better than '*' as there is no change of zero match.

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