AardWord takes just a few seconds to do the routine work of finding words with the right letters in the right place, so you can use your skills to decipher the clues and choose the correct word for the puzzle. Smaller, lighter, faster, easier than a printed crossword dictionary.

AardWord US Edition comes with the Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon (ENABLE) - probably the most comprehensive list of American English words available. All forms of each word are listed, including obscure plurals. This lexicon contains over 173,000 entries, in total 1.8 megabytes of data, compressed to just 700 KB to fit into your Palm handheld.

Use it as a Scrabble dictionary or a general-purpose spelling checker too. Or even compile your own crosswords! Crossword enthusiast or crossword beginner? Need to solve that last annoying clue? Want to move on to harder crosswords, but need a helping hand? Want to win that crossword competition?

How to use AardWord: simply write in the letters you know, and use a hyphen '-' for the letters you don't know. For example: type in '--a-pl-'. The AardWord search will give you 'example', 'grapple', 'reapply', 'sharply' and 'trample'.

Now available in 2 versions: