Crossword Assistant

Crossword Assistant
v2.1

Stuck for a 7-letter word whose second letter is B and fifth letter R? Crossword Assistant searches its list of over 20,000 7-letter words and instantly comes up with these possibilities ...

What about an anagram of lost Fridaywith fourth letter D? Not easy if you've never heard of the word

faldistory

but not a problem for Crossword Assistant.

Crossword Assistant comes with a built-in dictionary of over 150,000 words. It provides lightning-fast searches for words when you know some of the letters, or anagrams, and even partial anagrams for the answer. It's an indispensable tool when you have solved some clues in a crossword but can't get any further — or if you are crossword composer and need to fill in a light with a problematic selection of letters!

Crossword Assistant is a shareware application for Mac OS X users. You may download it and use it freely — almost all features are enabled without registration. If you like it you can register for US$25 or equivalent. Kagi: Payment of registration by Credit Card through Kagi is available.

New in version 2: Many new features, including the ability to search for phrases, and to create, install and manage alternative dictionaries. Registered users can install a huge 450,000 word dictionary, including over 165,000 phrases, as well as dictionaries for other languages, Shakespeare's plays and poetry, and the Bible!

New in version 2.2: Look up the meaning of words in internet reference sites; also 2 new dictionaries

Download version 2.2— Universal version for Mac OS X 10.4 PPC and Intel (1mb) new 18 July 2007

.........If you have version 2.0 to 2.1: Here is an updater CAUpdater2.2 (476 KB) which updates version 2.0x to version 2.2 (Tiger users only!).

Download version 2.02 (3Mb download) for Panther users

Registered users: Extra dictionaries for you to install; also some corrections to existing dictionaries (version 2.1 users).

... Instructions for installing dictionaries and corrigenda files (84 KB)

... English (Authenticated) - the recommended dictionary, (326248 words, 165328 phrases) (2.6 MB) words from the Large dictionary which have been checked to actually appear in some recognised published dictionary new 11 July 2007

... English (large) - extra large dictionary (452541 words, 165325 phrases) (3.1 MB) updated 11 July 2007 to include v2 Corrigenda

............Corrigenda for English (Large) v1 (804 KB)

............Corrigenda for English (Large) v2 (4 KB) new 11 July 2007

... English (small) - a useful small basic dictionary (69433 words, 19262 phrases) (408 KB)

............Corrigenda for English (Small) v1 (4 KB)

... English (Hyphenated), (5222 phrases) (32 KB) a small list of hyphenated words (almost all just one hyphen, and words which can be spelt without the hyphen may not appear); entries appear as phrases rather than words new 11 July 2007

... English - the unregistered user's dictionary (150382 words, 1 phrase) (624 KB)

............Corrigenda for English v1 (8 KB)

... ENABLE - the "unofficial standard" Scrabble dictionary (173528 words) (712 KB)

... UKACD - a well-known UK dictionary (154407 words, 19257 phrases) (764 KB)

... Shakespeare - plays and poetry (26278 words, 5188 phrases) (196 KB)

... The Bible - King James version (12709 words) (44 KB)

... MOBY English- (351499 words, 131692 phrases) (2.4 MB)

... Italian (Small) - (72544 words, 4502 phrases) (308 KB)

... Italian (Large) - (284191 words, 4502 phrases) (1 MB)

... Dante - The Divine Comedy (med. Italian) (13549 words, 14219 phrases) (276 KB)

... German - (249597 words) (1.3 MB)

... French - (229935 words) (944 KB)