TEA Crossword Helper 2.11.0

TEA Crossword Helper 2.11.0 delivers an advantageous and enhanced crossword puzzle solver with over 5 million words and phrases; these are classified by familiarity, so you always see the most likely answers first. It is faster and more convenient than word lists in book form such as crossword completers, crossword dictionaries and crossword keys.

TEA finds crossword answers; solves anagram clues; helps with other word games such as Scrabble and Lexulous. Letter variables help solve cryptograms and find words with unusual properties such as palindromes; punctuation matching finds phrases and hyphenated words; macros find vowels and consonants; logical operations combine patterns in useful ways. 

TEA has a built-in dictionary and thesaurus with over 400,000 definitions and 140,000 citations; it also integrates with web browsers to look up words using Internet search engines. Results can be printed, copied to the clipboard and saved to file. 

TEA includes the title index for the English version of Wikipedia; it includes specialized Scrabble, Literature and Language lists; the Word List Merge and Dictionary Builder tools help you incorporate your own word lists. The TEA command line version can be used in scripts.

Major Features:

1. 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:
   • • Templates .l...r.n finds electron
     • Templates with choice lists .e.[jklm].r. Finds perjury and deplore
     • Templates with wildcards .e.y.r* finds dehydrate
     • Anagrams ;lobikes finds obelisk
     • Anagrams with choice lists ;diners[ai] finds insider and sardine
     • Anagrams with wildcards ;opqr* finds propinquity
     • Template and anagrams g......;tangier finds granite but not ingrate
     • Scrabble® searching *;aehirlp finds hailer and harelip
     • 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
   • The tea tutorial walks you through more examples in greater depth, with screen shots.
2. Result list features
   • Tea has many options that help you use the results of a search:
   • • View results for up to nine 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
3. Definition window features
   • Tea definitions reveal the meanings of a word or phrase:
   • • Check for definitions in 13 different dictionaries
     • 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
4. Dictionaries and word lists
   • TEA includes word lists with over 6 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 780,000 entries
     • Wikipedia English contains a further 5,600,000 entries
     • The integrated dictionary/thesaurus has over 400,000 definitions
     • Citations indicate dictionaries where a further 140,000 or so entries are found
     • Specialized Scrabble, Literature and Languages lists are included
     • You can add custom word lists using the Word List Merge and Dictionary Builder tools