PuzzLex 6 - Crossword Solver

Features

PuzzLex is flexible and easy to use and can:

c?o??w?r? = crossword, c*t = cat, cart, cadet, consequent etc

garden = danger, ranged, gander

Margaret Thatcher = "That Great Charmer"

PuzzLex contains over 100,000 definitions, synonyms, antonyms and other word relationships in the integrated WordNet component.

Display only those words that match a particular pattern and contain a specified key words in their definition.

Run multiple searches simultaneously from within a single instance of PuzzLex.

The registered version of PuzzLex provides access to over 280,000 words of up to 30 characters in length. The evaluation version only allows access to words of up to 8 characters.PuzzLex can handle words containing up to 30 letters.

Lexicons support mixed case and punctuation characters. (Spaces, Commas, Apostrophes, Hyphens and Full Stops).

Accented characters. PuzzLex can use lexicons of foreign words.

Lexicons support multiple word entries (phrases) e.g. Find: 10 2 4 6 = "Elementary, My Dear Watson"

Support for multiple lexicons.

Select a set of lexicons for a particular search.

Add words to lexicons.

Remove words from lexicons.

Create new Lexicons.

Delete Lexicons.

Convert a word list to a PuzzLex Lexicon.

Merge Lexicons.

PuzzLex supports the usual wildcard characters:

? represents a single unknown character. (c?t would find cat and cot)

* represents zero or more characters. (c*t would find cat, cart, cadet, consequent etc)

Sets: search for a word where the first letter is a vowel: [aeiou]*

Ranges: search for a word where the last letter is in the range of 'm' to 'z': *[m-z].

Negation: search for words where certain letters are specified as NOT being a particular letter, eg ^p?? would find all 3 letter words that DO NOT begin with the letter 'p'.