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Anagram Searching
The Lexibook Crossword Solver can also find Anagrams
for you. This will allow you search for words in Crosswords
or other games with ease. Follow these instructions to use:-
• At the screen prompt
Word size?
N
press the ANAG key
• The display will show
Anagram Mode
• And then after 2 seconds will show
Word length
?
• At this prompt enter a word length, in the same way as
you do for a normal crossword search. The display will
clear to a series of “?ʼs”, which match this word length
• Then enter a word that could be an anagram, like
“BREAD”, by changing the “?,s” to letters. Use the letter
keys and arrow keys to achieve this.
• Crossword Solver will then search the database and find a
series of words which match this criteria. In this example
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the anagrams could be: BEARD, BREAD, or DEBAR.
Words will be sorted in alphabetical order A to Z.
• When a word is displayed on the screen you can press the
SUB key to review which subject(s) the word comes from
and then press CLR to go back the anagram list.
• Even if you enter jumbled up letters the unit will find the
matching words. E.G. if you enter “rdaeb” and press
ENTER the CR251 will find the same word list as per the
examples above.
• To return to the original entry press the CLR key once. At
this stage you can edit your entry by using the arrow keys
and/or DEL and letter keys to make a new entry..
• Press CLR twice to go back to the
Anagram Mode
prompt.
• Press CLR 3 times display to go back to the
Word size?
N
prompt in crossword solving mode.
