


"Robert, many thanks for your amazing creation of Toolbox Utilities, which I relied on, for six years of word games and puzzle creations for Korean university English classes, until retirement recently. I might even make it so there are multiple placeholder characters. We are in the process of the upgrading the entire site for mobile so I'll keep that in mind. "On my tablet, dash asplaceholder means I have to switch virtual uld you allow ? Say or. I tested it with your pattern and got:Īpparently "SWEETTALK" is not a valid Scrabble word " I JUST fixed placeholders in the PATTERN field. I recently edited the instructions and hopefully they are better now. Is there a restriction that you cannot use the "-" placeholder in a pattern? I can think of one common word that fits, BALLOONED, plus less common HALLOOING and SWEETTALK used as a verb. "I tried the pattern -aabb- and got nothing. I found most of it within a couple hours of finding this website!! " "Thanks for this, my friend made a cipher and I had been trying to solve it for days before I found this.

Scrabble rights elsewhere in the world are held by J.W. SCRABBLE is a trademark of Hasbro in the United States and Canada. Optimized code finds words 20-30% faster. PATTERN searches and KNOWN LETTERS now work together. Thanks to a user for the suggestion!įixed a compatibility issue with UTF-8 characters used in the PATTERN field We want to constantly improve our site by listening to yourĮnabled placeholders in the PATTERN field. If you find a bug, or have any suggestions to make our utility better, please leave a comment below or contact us directly. Letters that have already been used (like in Hangman), or letters that are not available. Use DOES NOT CONTAIN to exclude any letters that you do not want shown in the results,."c", "a", and "t", in any order, like "cadet", "exact", and "teach". If "any order" is checked, you'll find words containing the letters Enter "cat" with the checkbox unchecked, and you'll find words Enter f-k toįind four letter words that start with "f" and end with "k", like "fork" and "funk". You can use the KNOWN LETTERS field by itself to help with crosswords and similar puzzles. aabb- in PATTERN and b- in KNOWN LETTERS, will only find "BALLOONED". You can also use this with KNOWN LETTERS. This will find words like "BALLOONED", "COFFEEPOT", and "SUCCEEDED". Enter partial patterns with placeholders like -aabb.For example,Įnter 46( 88* in PATTERN and t-t- in KNOWN LETTERS. Use this in combination with the KNOWN LETTERS field to narrow down the words. This will find words like "BLUEBOOK", "RESTROOM", and "THIRTEEN".
