Crossword Resources

This site offers some tools to help you complete crossword puzzles:
  • A word lookup facility, whereby you may find all words which have specific letters at certain positions (e.g. "c.mp.t.r" would yield "compotor", "computer" and "competer").
    NEW: you can now look up multi-word phrases as well. Use one space to separate words. For example, "m.s...g l..." would yield the phrase "missing link".
  • A standard thesaurus for looking up synonyms and related words or phrases.
  • An anagram tool which will list all words which only contain a given set of letters. NEW: now works with phrases too. Don't enter any spaces when entering an anagram. For example, "fatbeauco" would yield "about face"
If you do the cryptic crossword in the Times, Telegraph, Guardian or Independent crosswords (among others), I hope that you'll find this site invaluable.

Lookup:
Word/Phrase Pattern (use dots for missing letters,
separate words with one space):
Thesaurus:
Word:
Anagrams:
Anagram Letters:
Combined:
This allows you to perform a lookup on a smaller set of words (the output of a thesaurus lookup)
Thesaurus Entry:

Then Lookup:


This site is completely free for your personal use. It does not use pop-ups or other intrusive advertising, and runs on open source software. All tools presented here have been written by me. They are open source, based on public-domain word lists, and all source code and word lists are made available (under GPL licencing ) for download.

New phrase-search functionality is possible thanks to lists compiled by Ben Iscatus.
See his letter pattern pages at http://sites.google.com/site/iscatus/crossword-phrases

If you like this site, have suggestions, or find a word is missing from the current word list I'm using, you can contact me here