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New WordFinder
This page is being rewritten and redesigned, though the apparent
changes will probably not be major. You can get a preview of the new page [now complete], but be advised that parts
may be broken, and things may change at any moment.
Cryptic Crossword Subscriptions
I am now offering e-mail subscriptions to a weekly cryptic
crossword puzzle. See http://cfaj.freeshell.org/cryptic/subscribe.shtml
for details.
WordFinder Software
 The software that drives the
WordFinder is a collection of Unix shell scripts. Most of these
scripts are available in my book, Shell
Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (Apress, May
2005). You can run these scripts on any version of Unix, including
Linux and the various BSD implementations. They have not been
tested on Mac OS/X, but they should work there, too. (If you try
them, please let me know how they run.)
Search by phrase lengths
If you enter a phrase length in the form 4,4,4, and select "Search by phrase lengths", you will get a list of the phrases that fit that character format.
For example, if you enter "6,5,3", you will get:
little green men (6,5,3)
Second World War (6,5,3)
that'll teach you (6,5,3)
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The WordFinder has been almost completely rewritten, so some of the
information on this page may no longer apply.
There are still a few bugs to be worked out.
Please contact me at cfaj@freeshell.org if you find any bugs, or have any suggestions for improvement.
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WordFinder finds words to fit a given
pattern. The pattern is entered using periods in place of unknown
letters. For example,
`a..d'
would find all four-letter words beginning with `A' and ending with
`D'. The search is case insensitive, so you may use upper or lower
case letters.
Multiple letters may be specified for any position in the word. These are
enclosed in square brackets:
`A..[cfaj]'
would match all four-letter words
beginning with `A' and ending with `c', `f', `a', or `j'.
The multiple letters can also be expressed as a range:
`[a-d]..r'
matches all four-letter words beginning with `a', `b', `c',
or `d' and ending with `r'.
Multiple lists or ranges can be combined:
`d..[a-dgjs-u]'
matches four-letter words beginning with `d' and ending
with `a', `b', `c', `d', 'g', 'j', `s', `t', or `u'.
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Anagrammer will find any entries in the
lexicon that are anagrams of the whole word entered. Since there are
compound words and phrases in the list, these will be returned, but
other multiple word anagrams will not be:
`Batsmen' would
find `bestMan' but not `StabMen', since it is not a common
phrase.
You may enter more than one word to get anagrams of the combination:
`StabMen' would return `batsmen' and `bestMan'.
- Anagrammer Minus One removes one letter at a time from
the word entered and finds anagrams of the remainder of the word. Try it;
you'll see what it does.
- Anagrammer Plus One adds each letter of the alphabet
to the word entered and finds anagrams of the combination.
- Words beginning with...
- Words ending with...
- Words containing...
- Words one letter different from...
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