Is there an online 'missing letter' site?
DDEckerslyke
letters eg
d------v-l-
-ilga-
-h-tter--
and all the others I can't get from last Saturday's Independent Weekend
Crossword.
IIRC you could do this using WordPerfect but then Word took over the world.
I've had a look to see if Google is any use but I can't see that it is.
cheers
dd
Peter T. Daniels
>
> Is there a site which enables you to search for word that fit a pattern of
> letters eg
> d------v-l-
> -ilga-
> -h-tter--
SHATTERED or SHUTTERED ?
> and all the others I can't get from last Saturday's Independent Weekend
> Crossword.
>
> IIRC you could do this using WordPerfect but then Word took over the world.
> I've had a look to see if Google is any use but I can't see that it is.
>
> cheers
>
> dd
--
Peter T. Daniels gram...@att.net
Ed Enstrom
news:3ff81...@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
> Is there a site which enables you to search for word that fit a pattern of
> letters eg
> d------v-l-
> -ilga-
> -h-tter--
>
Try this page:
http://www.puzzlers.org/wordlists/grepdict.php
Sheila Quate
DDEckerslyke <spa...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a site which enables you to search for word that fit a
> pattern of letters eg
> d------v-l-
> -ilga-
> -h-tter--
> and all the others
> I can't get from last Saturday's Independent Weekend Crossword.
Download the trial version of TEA from the following Website:
It will find words with missing letters and also solve anagrams.
The complete version comes on a CD-ROM with many dictionaries. Not
expensive either!
Sheila
Ed Hall
"DDEckerslyke" <spa...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a site which enables you to search for word that fit a pattern of
> letters eg
> d------v-l-
> -ilga-
> -h-tter--
Try typing "crossword solver" into google - it comes up with loads of
websites...
Generally www.jumble.org is the best I think (not that i use it!!). It
has a dictionary attached so it will tell you what the word actually
means.
www.oneacross.com claims to actually work out the answers from the clue
and letters (probably better for concise clues/cryptic clues you're
relatively certain about what the definition is). It also lets you put
in letters you're certain about and letters you're unsure about. Not
sure how it works as when I tried to use it said it was too busy.
Ed
Ron Somerville
On 1/4/04 10:22 PM, in article 3ff81...@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com,
DDEckerslyke
Andrew Taylor
> Thanks for the various suggestions
Just one more:
http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/wwizards/wwizards.py/main
It also does anagrams.
Dataminder
www.oneacross.com used to be good but it's crippled by traffic and
essentially unavailable between 9 and 5 EST (which is a good clue as
to what people are doing at work.)
I recently discovered this one. It does anagrams and missing letters
and its word list is impressive, with proper nouns and Britishisms.
Good beer to boot:
Surendar Jeyadev
If you use a good operationg system (e.g. Unix) you have it built in
via 'grep' and /usr/dict/words :-)
And, of course, it is not all that complete. Better to go to
www.puzzlers.org and use 'grep' (or, rather, a limited version of it)
on their excellent collection of dictionaries.
--
Surendar Jeyadev jey...@wrc.xerox.bounceback.com
Remove 'bounceback' for email address
Dave Baker
>From: "DDEckerslyke" spa...@tiscali.co.uk
>Date: 04/01/04 13:22 GMT Standard Time
>Message-id: <3ff81...@mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>
>
>Is there a site which enables you to search for word that fit a pattern of
>letters eg
>d------v-l-
>-ilga-
>-h-tter--
>and all the others I can't get from last Saturday's Independent Weekend
>Crossword.
Try this. I find it invaluable.
http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/jumble.html
Dave Baker - Puma Race Engines (www.pumaracing.co.uk)
I'm not at all sure why women like men. We're argumentative, childish,
unsociable and extremely unappealing naked. I'm quite grateful they do though.
Sue g
news:20040123190207...@mb-m12.aol.com:
>>Subject: Is there an online 'missing letter' site?
Not an online "missing letter" site but a program which you
can run without going online which is even better in my opinion!
I tried this program posted here by Nick Hoggard here on Jan 08 this
year:
start quote:
Subject: Beta testers needed for Crossword Helper program
From: nhog...@spray.se (Nick Hoggard)
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles.crosswords
Beta testers needed for Cross Helper program. Testers will receive a
free copy of the software.
NOTE: Do not reply to this post! Reply to
"support(at)aardasnails.com", and specify if you want the US or UK
edition.
Nick Hoggard
AardAsNails Software
end quote.
It has the the rather dubious sounding title (dubious sounding for us
Aussies that is) of "Aardword PC" and comes in a UK or US edition (with
quite a bit of Australian slang in the UK version).
The interface is quite plain with no bells or whistles but it does the
job very quickly and without fuss on my computer. You just type in the
word with - for the missing letters or it can do angarams too if you
wish.
It gave me answers for all the examples you posted (don't know if they
included the right answers but they looked pretty good!!.) I have always
been reluctant to use such a program as I am a bit of a "purist" and
won't even use a dictionary but I have a couple of friends who want to
know how to do cryptics and I think this would make an excellent present
for them..or anyone who enjoys playing with words.
Please note I have no connection with Nick Hoggard except a couple of
emails we have exchanged re the program.
Sue G