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This page summarizes the most important features of TEA Crossword Helper, which runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. The Quiz and Tutorial show further examples of problems you can solve with TEA patterns, with screen shots. To find out more, download a copy for evaluation.

Pattern Features

The basic features of TEA patterns are simple to understand. TEA lets you combine these building blocks in powerful ways to find the answer you're looking for:

Template matching .l...r.n finds electron

Template matching with choice lists .e.[jklm].r. finds perjury and deplore

Template matching with wildcards .e.y.r* finds dehydrate

Anagram solving ;lobikes finds obelisk

Anagram solving with choice lists ;diners[ai] finds insider and sardine

Anagram solving with wildcards ;opqr* finds propinquity

Template and anagram matching g......;tangier finds granite but not ingrate

Countdown-style searching *;rexagdoni finds organdie

Punctuation matching ...-..-..... finds fly-by-night

Macro replacement *@@@@@* finds miaoued

Subpattern matching p*(;kea)*t finds parakeet

Logically combined patterns ;aefgiln & !*ing finds finagle but not leafing

Cryptogram solving .112.....12 finds coordinator

Palindrome searching 123454321 finds Rotavator

Isogram searching ;1122334455 finds arraigning

Result List Features

TEA has many options that help you use the results of a search:

View results for up to eight word lists in priority order
See the extra letters not drawn from the set available
Lookup results in the integrated dictionary/thesaurus
Search for results on the Internet
Select or suppress proper names, hyphenated words and phrases
Print selected results with optional page preview
Save results as a text file or TEA&Sympathy Dictionary
Copy selected results to the clipboard

Definition Window Features

TEA definitions reveal the meanings of a word or phrase:

View multiple senses with their different parts of speech
See synonyms, antonyms and other closely related words
Look up the meaning of any word or phrase shown in the definition
Search for any word or phrase on the Internet

Dictionaries and Word Lists

TEA includes word lists with over a million unique entries as standard:

Core English contains the 65,000 most common words
Edited English contains the 265,000 words and phrases most likely to appear in crosswords
Unedited English contains another 765,000 entries
The integrated dictionary/thesaurus has over 350,000 definitions
Citations indicate dictionaries where a further 140,000 or so entries are found
Scrabble®, Literature and Languages lists are available as Supplementary Word Lists
Add your own word lists using the Word List Merge and Dictionary Builder tools

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