Crossword Puzzle Helper was developed to find words with a certain length when you do not know all the letters. Type in the search word using "?" for each unknown letter and press the "Start" button. All words meeting the search criteria will be displayed in the table. To search for another word, simply enter a new search word and click on the "Start" button. The table will be cleared and the new results will be displayed. The default word set has over forty-eight thousand words. You may use the Maintenance window to add new words or delete words in your word set. The first time you
What's New
Version 1.2.1:
Improves compatibility with Leopard.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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I think the description for this product is a bit too much. Maybe something more like: 'Crossword Puzzle Helper is a simple utility for finding incomplete words for use in crosswords.' You don't need to go on about what it says when you press this button, and that button, etc., etc. And then afterwards, maybe a mention of the 48,000 word list. Just keep it short.
[Version 1.1]
Anonymousreviewed on 03 Oct 2005
You can also use in the terminal something like:
grep ^cr.s.w.rd$ /usr/share/dict/web2
[Version 1.0.1]
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Crossword Puzzle Helper was developed to find words with a certain length when you do not know all the letters. Type in the search word using "?" for each unknown letter and press the "Start" button. All words meeting the search criteria will be displayed in the table. To search for another word, simply enter a new search word and click on the "Start" button. The table will be cleared and the new results will be displayed. The default word set has over forty-eight thousand words. You may use the Maintenance window to add new words or delete words in your word set. The first time you launch the utility, the default word set will be loaded and saved. When you next launch the utility, your word set (with changes) will be loaded and when you quit, the current word set will be saved. You may also revert to the default word set by clicking on the "Use Default Word Set" button.
Anonymous reviewed on 04 Oct 2005
Anonymous reviewed on 03 Oct 2005
grep ^cr.s.w.rd$ /usr/share/dict/web2