Anagram solver, Spellcheck function – Sharp Electronic Dictionary PW-E550 User Manual

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Anagram solver

A word or series of letters can be entered to find any matching anagrams found in
the

New Oxford American Dictionary.

<Example>

Find anagrams for ‘dear’.

1. Press

d to open the New Oxford American Dictionary.

Press the

} three times to place the cursor at the ‘Anagram solver’, then press

e. The input screen of the Anagram solver appears.

2. Place ‘dear’ in the input field, then

press

e to initiate the search.

Up to 100 words may be displayed in
the list.

3. In the list of matches, use the number keys to select a word.

The detailed view with definitions of the selected word appears.

• Press

f to return to the previous view.

• Press

^ l to list the headwords in the New Oxford American

Dictionary.

• To initiate another search, simply type in the new spelling or press

b to

return to the input screen of the Anagram solver.

Spellcheck function

The spellcheck function can be helpful when the exact spelling of a query word is
not known.

<Example>

You are not sure whether ‘liason’ or ‘liaison’ is correct.

1. Press

s to open the input screen

of the spellcheck function.

2. Enter ‘liason’.

3. Press

e to initiate the spellcheck function.

Words with similar spellings will be listed.

• While ‘Searching... Press [ENTER] to break’ is visible, press

e to stop

the search. Note that if the search is interrupted, the list of possible results
may not include all the closest matches.

• If the word is typed with the correct spelling, it will appear at the top of the

displayed list.

• If two or more words with an identical spelling are found in the list, then the

relevant headword will also be displayed, after an arrow symbol.

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