Using WildSpeller
Type a word in the text entry box, spelling it with wild cards * and ? if you like. Click the Go button (or press the Enter key or Alt+G keys). A list of matching words will appear in the list box. The list box will show "Nothing was Found" if your "word" is not found. With or without wild cards, the list box may contain one, a few, or many words.

American words in the list are marked with [US], British words are marked with [UK], and Canadian words are marked with [CA]. Unmarked words are standard in all three regions.

Scroll the list box to find a particular word. You can also move around in the list box with the Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keyboard keys, as well as the up and down arrow keys. Type a letter (when the list box has focus) to move the list to the first word beginning with that letter.

Wild cards can substitute for letters in the text entry box. The two wild card characters are:

• * substitutes for any number of characters, including no character
• ? substitutes for exactly one character

You can use up to eight * in one search. You can use any number of ? in one search. You can mix * and ? in one search. An example of acceptable wild card use is a*b?c*d, which finds abscessed, abscond and absconded.

Try ??tion to find words that start with any two characters and end with tion. Try *tion to find all words that end in tion.

Here are some example searches.
Search for -

• pneu*sis - to see a word with 45 letters
• ??tion - to find six-character words ending in tion
• *tion - to find all words ending in tion
• ??? - to find all three-character words
• ????? - to find all five-character words
• good* - to find words beginning with good
• civili?ation - to see different spellings in the US, the UK and Canada
• a*b?c*d - to find three words
• * - if you have a few seconds, to see all of WildSpeller's 144,000+ words!
  The last search, for *, finds all 144,000+ words in less than a second; the long delay is caused by inserting the words into Microsoft's list box.
• dejedel - to find two words
• newmonia - to find the name of the disease
• tempist - to find what sometimes happens in a teapot