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In the main type of
anagram dictionary, the letters in words or phrases are
rearranged in alphabetical order, and these transpositions are
themselves then ordered alphabetically within word-length
groups, so that any words consisting of this group of letters
can be found. This arrangement is designed for use in solving
word puzzles such as
crosswords, or for playing games such as
Scrabble. The first such anagram dictionary was the
"Crossword Anagram Dictionary" by R.J.Edwards, published in 1978
by Barrie & Jenkins in the UK and Mayflower Books in the US.
In the other kind of anagram dictionary, words are
categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words with
the same number of each kind of letter. Thus words will only
appear when other words can be made from the same letters.
Anagram dictionaries were formerly produced by hand, but can
now be trivially generated from any machine-readable word list
by computer, by sorting words in order of their sorted
letter-strings.
See also
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Thesaurus
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Rhyming dictionary
External links
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Hasbro's own Scrabble anagram dictionary
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More Words A useful anagram dictionary, in addition to
assisting with words with missing letters
