Downloadable Anagram Software
Anagram Artist 3.05 for Windows
by Mike Keith
Highly recommended
Freeware
Windows 98, XP
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Anagram Artist 3.05 is a very impressive package that
incorporates many features, such as a suggested word list, word
filters, a synonym finder, a built-in anagram generator and many
other useful extras.
It is an all-in-one tool designed for medium-to-long anagramming.
As you type, the program continually offers a list of suggested
words (sorted by how well they bring the unused letters into
alignment with the ideal English letter frequencies). There is
also a visual and numeric display of the letters remaining and
of the proportion of vowels.
It supports parts of speech (so you can ask for only adjectives,
for example), and has a rhyme finder to facilitate the construction
of anagrammed poetry.
When you get to the last 25 letters
a built-in anagram generator is available. This, in combination
with the suggested word list and filters, makes Anagram Artist
a powerful tool for finding short anagrams as well.
It is a 3.2 MB download. It works with Windows 98 and XP; it might work on Windows ME. It may not work on Windows 95, NT or 2000.
Winner of the Best Anagram Software in the Grand
Anagrammy Awards every year since 2001.
We are proud to announce that this software is available
exclusively from the Anagrammy website:
Click here for full details, improvements in Version 3.05, registration and download.
Compare it with Anagram Genius
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Anagrammy Team Recommendation:
In our opinion, it is the complete anagramming tool! Perfect for medium to long anagrams, but is also more than adequate for short anagrams. And it is free! Download it now!
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Anagram Genius Version 9
by William Tunstall-Pedoe
Highly Recommended
Commercial Software
Version 9
-Windows
Version 8 - Macintosh
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Anagram
Genius is an excellent piece of software and is reasonably
priced.
One of the main differences between Anagram Genius and other anagram software
is that it allows you to describe in detail the text (Male, Female,
Business, Satire, Flattery etc.) as well as (optionally) the
relevance of individual words. The software then scores the anagrams
it finds, selecting those which it thinks are most likely to
be relevant and meaningful based on the information that you
have provided and its knowledge of English.
This approach has the advantage that much less manual scanning
of the output is required: you can choose to keep only the best
500 or so anagrams if you wish.
You may first wish to try out the free Windows version before
you upgrade to the full commercial version. It works for 15 runs
or one month (whichever comes first) but lacks some of the features
of the full version. A free evaluation copy can be downloaded
here.
You can buy the latest Windows and MacOS versions of Anagram
Genius online here, using a credit card. The price is
$US39.95 or £24.99. Existing customers looking for upgrade
information should go here.
Version Nine involves radical improvements to almost every
aspect of the software. Full details of the software can be found
here.
- A completely new user interface. The window can now
be maximised to the full size of the screen and many many more
anagrams and subwords can be seen at once.
- Improved anagram generation. The lexicon is now 150000
words and phrases.
- Integration with the Anagram Genius archive. All the
thousands of brilliant anagrams in the archive are now displayed
by the software and you can submit your own new discoveries for
consideration directly from within the program!
- Compulsory words. Words can be made compulsory so
they will appear in all anagrams. This is an extremely effective
method for finding highly relevant anagrams and making anagrams
of very long subjects.
- Weeded anagrams and subword changes are preserved. The
software now allows you to build up the weeded list over several
attempts. Changes you make to the subwords of one subject can
even be applied to another closely related subject.
- Multiple custom dictionaries. Instead of just a few
categories and a single "user dictionary", you can
now have any number of custom dictionaries supporting a potentially
infinite number of categories and even enabling some support
for other languages!
Compare it with Anagram Artist
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Anagrammy Team Recommendation:
This is brilliant for shorter anagrams, especially with people's names.
The new version is a huge advance on the previous version and offers many new helpful features.
Try it, then buy it! Click the link here.
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Anagrams 2.4 for Macintosh
by Andrew Trevorrow and Nick Spencer
Recommended
Shareware
Macintosh OS8.6 to OSX
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Anagrams
2.4 is a fast and friendly anagram generator for
the Mac. The main design goal was to make it fun and easy to
find interesting anagrams for any given text. Anagrams has a
number of useful features.
Various options can restrict the search for usable words and
anagrams. For example, you can specify the size of usable words
and number of words in the anagram. While anagrams are being
generated you can copy any interesting ones (for pasting into
your text editor) or you can drag anagrams straight into a drag-savvy
editor.
The supplied new word list of 40,000 words can be modified.
A dialog box lets you find, add or delete words. You can also
ask Anagrams to read a given text file and automatically add
any new words found; this is very handy for creating a new word
list from scratch. Word lists contain user-definable characters.
The default character set includes accented letters and other
8-bit characters used in most languages based on the Roman script.
Note that additional word lists are available to registered users
on request.
You can build up a "tree" of selected usable words.
All paths in the tree are prefixes for potential anagrams. This
is very useful when finding anagrams for long phrases. Trees
can be filed away for later recall. The latest version has a
new sophisticated search facility to help find keywords that
you want in your anagram, easier switching between word lists,
and several other improvements.
The shareware fee for Anagrams is $20 using the Kagi Online Order system.
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Anagrammy Team Recommendation:
If you have a Mac, this is the one for you. Not as clever as Anagram Artist and Anagram Genius V.9, but good for short to medium anagramming.
Download it now, then register it!
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WordSword for Macintosh
by Rob Steward
Trailware/Commercial Software - $25.00
Macintosh OS 10.2 or above
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WordSword has four different modes:
- Anagrams:
Find letter patterns and solve crosswords.
- Crosswords:
Solve jumbled words.
- Dictionary:
Find anagram words and phrases.
- Thesaurus:
Lookup definitions and synonyms.
The purchase price for WordSword is $25 using the Kagi Online Order system.
FART (Free Anagram Research Tool) 6.0 (Previously known as SATER)
by Onno Zweers
Recommended
Freeware
Cross-platform (javascript)
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This program differs from true anagram generators
in that it does not have a word list and therefore cannot create
anagrams automatically. Instead, it assists in the manual creation
of anagrams by keeping a tally of the remaining letters.
FART is an online and offline anagram
checker that it is written in javascript. It is also very useful for creating long
anagrams when combined with an anagram generator. It will check
your anagram and tell you which letters are still left. It will also give you a list of suggested wirds from the remaining letters.
You can save your anagrams for copying and pasting. A cookie
will allow you to store your previous anagrams.
You can copy the html & javascript code, save it as a text
file and modify it if you want. Then you can open it from your
favourite browser and run it as an off-line checker whenever
you like. It works best in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Wordplay 7.22
by Evans A. Criswell
Shareware
Unix &
DOS
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Wordplay is one of the oldest anagram
programs around, version 1.00 dating from 1991. The current version
is Version 7.22 (20-Mar-96).
It is a simple but versatile program
that forms the basis of a number of well-known online anagram
generators.
Ulf Lunde has adapted Wordplay to produce anagrams in Norwegian.
A copy can be obtained by sending email to him at Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no
Anagram Generator
by Jason Rampe
Commercial Software (Trailware for 50
days)
Windows 9x, Windows NT and Windows
2000
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Anagram
Generator includes dictionary files to support anagram
generation in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and
Spanish.
New features include a crossword solver to help solving crosswords,
a palindrome finder, a reverse dictionary generator and a phone
anagram generator.
You can download a trial version of this application. The
trial version is identical to the registered version in features.
This allows you to fully evaluate if this software meets your
needs before commiting to a purchase. Registration for the full
version is only $19.95 AUD (approx $10 US).
Anagrams
by Kim Moser
Shareware
DOS & Windows
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Anagrams
is a DOS program but it runs under Windows as well. It has
multiple options, including varying number of words, word length
and too many others to list here.
A registered version of Anagrams costs $10.00. This will get
you a larger dictionary (over 135,000 words) and other features.
Anagram Ferret v1j
by David Hooper
Freeware
Windows
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Anagram
Ferret is a highly configurable anagram finder
that can use any text file as a dictionary. Anagram Ferret is
a single file with a readme. There's no installation, no changes
to the registry and no registration boxes. Anagram Ferret is
free and fully functional. Dictionaries are also available for
download.
Maanrag 2.0
by Onno Zweers
Freeware
Windows
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Maanrag is a free Dutch anagram generator
for Windows. It has a word list of 180,000 Dutch words and can
also import other word lists.
Anagram Master
by James Garton
Freeware
Windows
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Anagram Master quickly solves anagram puzzles using a large English dictionary. It is useful for solving anagram problems, scrabble, word yahtzee, word poker and a few other word games and puzzles.
You can input any length of anagram and select the size of words to search for. It uses a word list containing 80,000 words (includes plurals). It contains Bristish and American spellings for words. You can also replace the word list with your own; if for example you wanted to search for words without plurals, or even use a completely different language!
It is very simple to use, has a small file size, and there's no need to install: just unzip into any directory and run from there.
Anagram Finder
by John Walker
Freeware
Windows
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Anagram Finder finds anagrams or permutations of words in the target phrase. If one or more seed words is given, only anagrams containing all of those words will be shown. The target and seed may be specified by options or CGI program environment variables as well as on the command line.
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