Entering characters
When entering characters, exclude those such as spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, slashes, and periods. See page 13 for details.
Note:
•The wildcard character ‘?’ must not be entered into the input field of the Puzzle solver.
The wildcard character ‘?’ can only be used in the Crossword solver (see page 23) or the Random quote function (see page 22).
•Up to 24 characters can be entered into the input field of the Puzzle solver. When searching for words containing 25 characters or more, narrow down the search and select the words from the list manually.
Anagram solver
A word or series of letters can be entered to find any matching anagrams found in the Oxford Crossword Dictionary.
<Example>
Find anagrams for ‘dear’.
1.Press yand 3to open the Anagram solver, then type ‘dear’ into the input field.
2.Press eto initiate the search. Up to 100 words may be displayed in the list.
3.In the list of matches, use the number keys to select a word.
A list of the lemmas with the given number of letters appears. In this example, the list would be the total number of words consisting of 4 letters.
•To see other words/expressions with the same number(s) of letters, use <or >to scroll up/down. Use ^wor ^nto jump to the previous or next pattern list.
•Press fto return to the previous view.
•Press ^lto see the list of all patterns (e.g., 5 letters).
•To initiate another search, simply type in the new spelling or press ^b to return to the input screen of the Anagram solver.
Note
•For the Anagram solver, not only single word but also multiword solutions will be offered - e.g. ‘gono’ finds ‘go on’ and ‘no go’ as well as ‘goon’.
•The Crossword Dictionary database does not include regular inflections, so if your original search does not give you the required answer, try removing an
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