Crossword Help
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $3.99 | Antony Lewis | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
There are three word lists provided for advanced word searching:
- Basic: 110 000 words and common compounds
- Advanced: over 750 000 words and compounds
- Wikipedia: millions of head words from Wikipedia
Word searches can include one or more unknown letters, vowel/consonant patterns, or groups of possible letters. For example, searching for T???P finds 5-letter words starting in T and ending in P. The Basic word list is the same as that used by Crossword Compiler - the program used by most professional crossword constructors.
The program also includes a full offline thesaurus: enter a complete word to show synonyms. You can easily change the length of the words shown to match the slot in a puzzle.
You can check if a word is in the word list and find anagrams. There's also a feature to find partial anagrams - all the words that can be made using the letters in a word (useful for Scrabble (TM)).
No Internet connection is required, but if you are online you can click on any word to quickly look it up in a variety of web references - turn your iPhone into an electronic crossword dictionary!
Other features include:
- Use British, American, Canadian or Australian English lexicon
- Change case and punctuation sensitivity
- Change maximum word length
Reviews
Very useful; needs an iPhone X update
Nate
Please update this app to better support the iPhone X screen size. This is great for solving crosswords, and for solving the anagrams found in cryptic (British-style) crosswords. Many dictionary apps have a similar feature, but it’s usually not very good. This one is purpose-built for the task. It links to the Chambers Dictionary app if you have it. That’s the standard dictionary used by creators of cryptic crosswords, so it’s a handy feature. I only wish it fully supported the iPhone X screen size. Currently it works, but it doesn’t fill the screen.
Excellent!
Justus P
This is by far and without a doubt, the most powerful and most customizable crossword/Scrabble/anagram dictionary in the itunes store.
Truly Outstanding Tool
Schnauzer Logic
Fast and Flexible, i'm still finding new ways to use it when i'm not working on crosswords!
An amazing application
mikeman118
This is great for solving crossword puzzles, it will really help you.
Blah
Elitehaxzor
I must agree with sketch, America#1 roar! As for this crossword help, quit the price drops and increase it doesn't help! Neither does this app, crosswords are to make you think, pointless if you use this, keep at free and work on your next app and hopefully it's a better one.
Needs bug fix
Geo-Carl
It looks and works great, and my first reaction was favorable. That was until I did a routine sync operation. The process froze the sync process repeatedly. Only after removing the app from my iPhone was I able to perform a sucessful sync. Once the problem is fixed, I will look forward to using it. Otherwise it looks fine and performs as promised.
Works great
Cruiseflash
Does everything it promised and more. Now I can delete all those useless programs (including the one that anagrammed, but didn't have any results if the word was a plural). I don't usually splurge on programs, but this was worth it.
